Thursday, April 18, 2024

The earth is flat

The great obstacle to discovering
    the shape of the earth, the continents, and the ocean
        was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

                Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers

 

 

 

 

 

 

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