Dumb myths people just don’t stop repeating
Posted in Life on August 13th, 2007 No Comments »
1. In the time of Columbus, most people thought the Earth was flat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus#Navigation_plans Actually, most educated people, and especially anyone involved with nautical exploration (eg, Kings, scholars, ship captains, sailors) had known the Earth was round since the time of Ancient Greece. Even more interesting, the story of Christopher Columbus being the kind of [...]