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"Medieval people" covers a lot of ground. There are people today who still think it's flat. At least some of the ancient Greeks were aware that the Earth was round, and even knew how big it was. The reason Columbus had trouble finding a sponsor for his expedition was not that everyone at the time thought the Earth was flat; the common people may have believed that, but educated people knew better. The problem was that they also knew how big it was (from the Greeks); Columbus thought it was considerably smaller and also thought Asia stuck out further to the east than it really does. The people who refused to sponsor his trip didn't think he'd fall off the edge, they thought he'd run out of supplies and starve... which he would have, if he hadn't run into the Americas long before reaching Asia.

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