Links? Look for yourself.
Not an unexpected answer. We pretty much know by now that any reference to all-myth-all-the-time Protestant Anti-Catholic "sources" you say you relied upon to base your polemics are just as imaginary.
Once again, you continue to blame "Protestants" for even inventing the myth that the Catholic Church taught a flat earth view yet the blurbs from the book says:
- Inventing the Flat Earth is Jeffrey Burton Russell's attempt to set the record straight. He begins with a discussion of geographical knowledge in the Middle Ages, examining what Columbus and his contemporaries actually did believe, and then moves to a look at how the error was first propagated in the 1820s and 1830s—including how noted writers Washington Irving and Antoinne-Jean Letronne were among those responsible. He shows how later day historians followed these original mistakes, and how this snowball effect grew to outrageous proportions in the late nineteenth century, when Christians opposed to Darwinism were labelled as similar to Medieval Christians who (allegedly) thought the earth was flat. But perhaps the most intriguing focus of the book is the reason why we allow this error to persist.
So, rather than "Protestants" creating the myth, it was Darwinists (hardly Christians) who propagated that ALL Christians held to a "flat earth" and there were plenty of REAL references from the early middle-ages that held to a spherical earth including Columbus and those who went before him. Nobody was picking on the poor, ol' Catholics! If you actually DO some objective research for a change, you would find that the idea of a flat earth was held by many ancient civilizations LONG before Christianity came to exist. Here, you can do some research for yourself http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth