>[book on Julian of Norwich] ... which, alas, falls for the usual
>cliche/commonplace that the Middle Ages thought the world was flat and
>square, when medieval people clearly knew it was round, the orb with the
>cross for Jerusalem at the top, mappa mundi, Icelandic maps and all the
>rest.
Bede mentions that it is round, and, lest there be any misunderstanding, he
adds, 'round like a ball, not just round like a shield.' There's an
interesting treatment of the subject in Wesley Stevens' Jarrow Lecture,
"Bede's Scientific Achievement".
Oriens.
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