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Author Topic:   Learning exercise 1: who first stipulated that the earth was round?
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Message 26 of 29 (355916)
10-11-2006 2:05 PM
Reply to: Message 19 by iano
10-10-2006 9:23 AM


The term used in the bible just so happens to be two dimentional, not spherical. This matches the bablyonian and egyptian cosmologies of the time too.

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