The Wildest Myths Viewers Have Been Led to Believe by Movies & Media

Myth #22 – Medieval Europeans Believed The Earth Was Flat

Medieval Europeans did not believe the Earth was flat. Since the ancient Greek philosophers, Aristotle and Plato, belief in a spherical Earth was universal among intellectuals.

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