Dr. Thomas Madden
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No, that's definitely a myth.
The problem with Galileo was that he was also a bit of a jerk.
The medieval Inquisition actually saved lives.
It saved people from being burned at the stake.
Explain yourself.
Yes.
No, that's definitely a myth, yes.
Actually, people knew that the world was round since the ancient Greeks.
In fact, the ancient Greeks knew how big the world was.
This was commonly known in the Middle Ages.
If you look at any map of the world from the Middle Ages, they're all round.
There's not a single one.
They have Christ holding the globe, but it's always a globe.
The Venerable Bede wrote about this.
You think about it, Catholics during the Middle Ages
They had to be able to figure out Easter, which is hard.
It's an astronomical to figure out when the Easter is going to be there.
So they had to make various observations.
They knew this.
Thomas Aquinas wrote about this.