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Prior to the Age of Exploration what was a common misconception about the shape of the world?
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Before the Age of Exploration, astronomers and other scientists assumed that the Earth was perfectly round. In the 17th century, after the Age of Exploration, Isaac newton hypothesized that the earth was an oblate sphere, not a perfect sphere.
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