Reply To: If the world is really round

akuperma: False. It was a Machlokes among the Greek/Roman philosophers and the Catholic Church Paskened like the Man D’amar that it was flat. General consensus of the Hamon Am during the dark ages was a flat world. (Or, more accurately, a slightly raised bubble of land rising out of either infinite ocean or nothingness at the edge of the ocean. In fact, there are some who read a Yerushalmi like that Deah.) Pashtus is there are some Rishonim who thought like this general consensus. Don’t insult their intelligence by trying to tell us that “everyone knew it was round”.