Posted 3/2/2015 08:22 (#4424797 - in reply to #4424732) Subject: RE: NOAA: 2185 cold records broken or tied in last week
39.48, -82.98
Never.
The first scientists were the Ionian Greeks. They not only knew that Earth was sphere, they also had deduced its diameter to amazing accuracy.
The people who persisted in thinking Earth was flat were the uneducated masses and (later) the Church with its own agenda for controlling the uneducated masses. Sounds harsh, but that is the honest truth.