Heretic! Of course the world is flat
I am again recommending to you the excellent collection of scientific research published all in one book called Autism: Oxidative Stress, Inflammation andImmune Abnormalities , edited by Chauhan, Chauhan and Brown. It is seriously expensive, but if you manage to read it, you will likely know much more than your paediatrician. Assuming that most of you will not want to buy the book, I will be feeding you edited highlights over the coming weeks. Today’s insight is about heresy . Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 and then Magellan’s circumnavigation of the Earth (1519–21) provided the final and indisputable proof that our world is spherical. At different periods in time before this, the world had been thought of as flat, round, square and possible spherical. In 748 the then Pope Zachery heard complaints that Vergilius (Virgil) of Salzburg, who happened to be both an Irish churchman and amateur astronomer, was teaching a doctrine about the “rotundity of th...