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The fact that the earth is not flat has been known for thousands of years. The Ancient [[Greece|Greeks]] Pythagoras (570 - 495 BC), Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) and Hipparchus (190 - 120 BC) all knew this. The [[India|Indian]] astronomer and mathematician, Aryabhata (476 - 550 AD) knew this. And so did the early Christian scholars Anicius Boëthius (480 - 524 AD), Bishop Isidore of Seville (560 - 636 AD), Bishop Rabanus Maurus (780 - 856 AD), the monk Bede (672 - 735 AD), Bishop Vergilius of Salzburg (700 - 784 AD) and Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274 AD). In fact, contrary to what we are often told, the sphericity of the earth was common knowledge among early medieval [[Europe|Europeans]]<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth&oldid=403735303 Myth of the Flat Earth] - Wikipedia, accessed December 27, 2010</ref> and the Holy Roman Empire from as early as 395 AD used an orb to represent the spherical Earth.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Globus_cruciger&oldid=312872920 Globus cruciger] - Wikipedia, accessed September 9, 2009</ref> | The fact that the earth is not flat has been known for thousands of years. The Ancient [[Greece|Greeks]] Pythagoras (570 - 495 BC), Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) and Hipparchus (190 - 120 BC) all knew this. The [[India|Indian]] astronomer and mathematician, Aryabhata (476 - 550 AD) knew this. And so did the early Christian scholars Anicius Boëthius (480 - 524 AD), Bishop Isidore of Seville (560 - 636 AD), Bishop Rabanus Maurus (780 - 856 AD), the monk Bede (672 - 735 AD), Bishop Vergilius of Salzburg (700 - 784 AD) and Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274 AD). In fact, contrary to what we are often told, the sphericity of the earth was common knowledge among early medieval [[Europe|Europeans]]<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth&oldid=403735303 Myth of the Flat Earth] - Wikipedia, accessed December 27, 2010</ref> and the Holy Roman Empire from as early as 395 AD used an orb to represent the spherical Earth.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Globus_cruciger&oldid=312872920 Globus cruciger] - Wikipedia, accessed September 9, 2009</ref> | ||
Surely if the [[Qur'an]] is a letter-by-letter dictation from [[Allah]], it would also concur with this fact that was known throughout the world ''before'' its [[revelation]], and it would surely contradict the flat earth model widely believed in by the 7<sup>th</sup> century Bedouins of Arabia. | Surely if the [[Qur'an]] is a letter-by-letter dictation from [[Allah]], it would also concur with this fact that was known throughout the world ''before'' its [[revelation]], and it would surely contradict (which it does not) the flat earth model widely believed in by the 7<sup>th</sup> century Bedouins of Arabia. | ||
== Analysis of Qur'an Verses == | == Analysis of Qur'an Verses == | ||