Wolf
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- Feb 7, 2009
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Which is just what I said. There was a consensus in the scientific community in Europe at the time that the Earth was flat. There were theorists who believed it was round. Explorers proved the theory, science did not.Actually, the scientists of the time did not say otherwise. The explorers did.
Map makers and mathematicians thought the earth was curved... and so did many sailors.. those who explored or tested the ideas found the truth....
Science, as we know it, didnt exist until Galileo invented the Scientific method in the 1600's He tested competing ideas by performing experiments, not talking about them.
One debated idea at the time was that a heavier objects fall faster than smaller lighter ones. Scholars said the heavier one fell faster. He went to the top of a tower and dropped two balls, one larger and one smaller.. they hit at the same time(in reality you need the absence of an atmosphere, like the astronaut on the moon who dropped a feather and a rock at the same time and hittin the moons surface at the same time) proving the talking scholars wrong by expermentation.
Before that there was just the Pope telling the world what to believe and what was right.