re: Magellan stories

sschaff@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:43:46 -0800 (PST)

Ted Davis wrote:

[...]
> It's this kind of BS (that's the only term I can think of that accuractly
> conveys my meaning, please forgive) that gets my hackles up. Cosmas was one
> of only two persons we can name in the Latin West, after the time of Christ,
> who believed in a flat earth;

Who is the other one you have in mind? I thought both Isidore and
Tacitus described a flat earth.

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