[Mad Dawg]

We do some Ptolemy at my college. The general theory and one inner and one outer planet. And our calling the work the Almagest shows who kept the text for us in the west.

I was wondering if any of the "educated" in the west ever forgot the round world deal. The problem the round worlders had with Columbus was not that he'd fall off the edge but that they knew the Indies were way further away than he said they were.

[annalex]

Thank you both for educating me. Somehow, I never asked myself these questions.