
Originally Posted by
Jurnis
[COLOR=Navy]Conrad, I know that this post is late in the coming, but I want you to define the term "basic material." The standards for such things change over time, and what was supposed to be common knowledge back in the 15th and 16th centuries will certainly be viewed in by a different light by society today.
The "basic materials" that were found back then might even be laughed at by you and me today. For example, common knowledge in medieval Europe clearly stated that the world was flat. We would laugh at the idea, because modern resources have proved that theory wrong time and again.
That is incorrect.
That is common knowledge, but it is still incorrect.
The longest place to hold out the idea that the world was flat was China, before influence by Europe.
The ancient greeks (from about the 3rd century BC onwards knew the world to be round).
I cannot read the rest of your post due to time constraints. But I saw this glairing error and wished to correct it.
~John
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