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Learning exercise 1: who first stipulated that the earth was round?

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10-10-2006 9:33 AM 		Reply to: Message 19 by iano
10-10-2006 9:23 AM

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And here is where we alert the reader to another key word-concept that is missing in Hebrew: There was no varying word for a "sphere" - a three-dimensional circle.
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I don't think that's actually true - and I thought it was "chug ha-arets" rather than Chug?
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