Even old Christians knew the earth was a sphere. The “Catholics believe the earth is flat” was something said by someone AGAINST Catholics, not because it was true.
They knew for sure. They just didn’t know much about the layout and mechanics of the solar system. The Earth centric model was the thing. But only because they didn’t have good enough tools to observe otherwise. When they got better telescopes and mathematics, learned better.
There’s some really amazing world building that’s been done with flat-earth art as a springboard
Can’t remember the name, but there’s one with concentric circles separated by ice walls with landmasses named after different mythologies’ deities. There’s a whole community built around writing lore for each landmass
Flat earth would be so cool if it was just sci-fantasy authors and not weird, return to christandom, anti-modernity types.
So, the Discworld. Yes, it is very cool.
Even old Christians knew the earth was a sphere. The “Catholics believe the earth is flat” was something said by someone AGAINST Catholics, not because it was true.
They knew for sure. They just didn’t know much about the layout and mechanics of the solar system. The Earth centric model was the thing. But only because they didn’t have good enough tools to observe otherwise. When they got better telescopes and mathematics, learned better.
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There’s some really amazing world building that’s been done with flat-earth art as a springboard
Can’t remember the name, but there’s one with concentric circles separated by ice walls with landmasses named after different mythologies’ deities. There’s a whole community built around writing lore for each landmass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Forward
Michael Marshall Smith does this theme, only different.