Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Flat Earth" in English language version.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help){{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)The world was a flat disk, with the Earth in the center and the sea all around. Thus the serpent is about as far away from the center, where men and gods lived
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)The Vedic texts contain several depictions of the shape of the cosmos. The Rigveda alone contains two basic images of the cosmos: a bipartite cosmos, consisting of the two spheres of heavens and Earth, and a tripartite cosmos consisting of the three spheres of heavens and Earth (...)
The world, being made spherical, is confined within the circles of heaven.
In other passages of the Etymologies, he writes of an orbis. Also in: Wolfgang Haase; Meyer Reinhold, eds. (1994). The Classical tradition and the Americas, vol. 1. Walter de Gruyter. p. 15. ISBN 978-3-11-011572-7. Retrieved November 28, 2010.
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link){{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)The myth that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth is flat appears to date from the 17th century as part of the campaign by Protestants against Catholic teaching.
The myth that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth is flat appears to date from the 17th century as part of the campaign by Protestants against Catholic teaching.
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