Is the earth flat?

[episteme]

SpokenTruth said:

episteme said:
Ugh, Niel deGrasse Tyson thinks that people thought 500 years ago that it was flat. The dominant medieval doctrine of scholars was that the earth is spherical.

Among scholars in certain fields or schools of education, yes.  Among the common population, it's much more likely they believed it was flat.

All clerics learned it in schools as part of the liberal arts.

Well, it's hard to know what the common population thought. Most people probably didn't care about it.