Flat Earth
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flat-earth-169-3100155
title:
Flat Earth
text:
Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk. Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat-Earth cosmography, notably including ancient near eastern cosmology. The model has undergone a recent resurgence as a conspiracy theory. The idea of a spherical Earth appeared in ancient Greek philosophy with Pythagoras. However, most pre-Socratics retained the flat-Earth model. In the early 4th century BC, Plato wrote about a spherical Earth. By ab
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Archaic conception of Earth's shape
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
date created:
2001-12-06T15:55:52Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T09:23:50Z
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