It’s a round world after all

 

It seems obvious that it is, but that may only be due to the fact we are taught that from childhood, and have likely seen pictures of Earth from space.

There actually is a group, however, known as the Flat Earth Society, which says otherwise. Their mission statement contends that Christopher Columbus used “hundreds of mirrors and a few burlap sacks” to create an illusion that he had sailed around the globe and landed in the West Indies. Of course, we realize Columbus did actually stop short in his intention of rounding the world, by bumping into a previously unknown island off a continent unknown to his part of the world (the Americas weren’t “new” to the Vikings, and certainly not to the people living here).


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