Talk:Inventing the Flat Earth

Old ideas from April 2010
I'm reading an Amazon review of this book, and it's given me the idea that we should have an article on The Earth in Medieval thought, describing both (1) views on the shape of the earth and (2) views on the motion and/or immobility of the earth.

I wonder whether the Ptolemaic idea that the sun and planets revolve around the Earth was not just prevalent, but part of church doctrine. I bet other readers wonder this too, so it would be nice to have a short WP:SUMMARY of this point.

It appears that the idea of the immobile Earth - properly associated with the Catholic Church before the modern acceptance of Galileo, Kepler and Newton - has been confused with the idea of the Flat Earth, which not even 1 educated Christan in 1,000 believed in the Dark Ages or Medieval times. --Uncle Ed (talk) 14:53, 19 April 2010 (UTC)