Re: Crazy ideas?
Even in Columbus' time people were very well aware that the earth was round.
Columbus was crazy not because he thought it was a sphere, but because he thought it was around 1/2 the size everyone else did. He was expecting to find Asia only a few hundred miles off the european coast and came dangerously close to mutiny as the voyage went on far longer than his sailors expected. (He also falsified the ship's log to give sailors the idea they'd sailed a far shorter distance than they really had.)
(And this is all quite apart from the havoc he wreaked in the Americas)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
