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As The World Turns

By , About.com GuideJanuary 29, 2010

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mapBefore 1450, nearly everyone thought that the earth was flat and that wheels drove the sun, stars and the moon. People also thought that the earth was the center of all stars which were stuck in some giant awning that covered the earth.

Learn about the invention of the first globes. Miniature representations of the earth in the form of globes and terrain models called armillary spheres have a long history. Illustration Mary Bellis

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February 20, 2010 at 11:35 am
(2) hubert says:

It’s true that our concept of reality is growing like when we look back we didn’t know much, compared to today, however it’s still a mystery indeed because there is a window of the past that we still don’t understand very well, like how would the Sumerian know about the nine planets before the invention of telescope?

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