"We tend
to see the Middle Ages as the Dark Ages, ignorant times when superstition ruled
and reason was absent. Our popular assumption is that in between the
philosophy of the ancient Greece and the European Renaissance awakenings led by
the holy trinity of Copernicus, Galileo and Newton, humanity spent their days
praying to God and murdering each other…In reality, things are more complicated.
As “The Light Ages” by the Cambridge historian Seb Falk shows, the Middle Ages were actually the times of learning and indeed of science…Unlike our popular belief goes,
nobody half-way educated believed back then that the Earth was flat. That
assumption about the Middle Ages was actually invented in the 19th century. The
medieval knowledge was that the earth was very much round, some calculations
even managed to estimate its correct size..."
PS - What no doubt will also enter history is January 6 of 2021, the day when a bunch of deplorable Americans (still living in the Dark Ages, that includes many who believe the Earth is flat) incited by the USA (racist to the bone) Orange King himself helped create a new holiday in Russia, China, North Korea and Iran, the Laughter Holiday. The leaders of those countries now take for a fact something that the American historian Andrew Bacevich wrote about “the sun has set on the American empire“. https://spectator.us/end-american-empire-dominion/
