[muawiyah]

Actually, the European view of the Earth's shape back in the 1400s was rather maleable. Absent a good way of keeping time while measuring latitude, East/West distances were highly inaccurate.

Columbus' pitch to the French and Spanish royal courts was that the Earth was shaped kind of like a football! That meant that the distance from Europe to Asia was much shorter than they imagined and at the same time the measurement of the combined width of Africa and East Asia was just as wide as they believed.

The Spanish bought the story.

[Oztrich Boy]

Columbus' pitch to the French and Spanish royal courts was that the Earth was shaped kind of like a football!

Which in those times was

Your point being?

[dfwgator]

Columbus' pitch to the French and Spanish royal courts was that the Earth was shaped kind of like a football!

And all the world is football shape/It's just for me to kick in space