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Educated medieval people assumed that Earth was the shape of a globe
Cosmology was certainly geocentric before [[Copernicus]] (1473-1543), but [[geocentricity]] and [[sphericity]] are two entirely different issues, both scientifically and historically. Educated medieval people assumed that [[Earth]] was the shape of a globe, just as they assumed that Earth did not rotate and was the center of what wee now call the [[solar system]] .[http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/pass/passv10/flat-earth.html]