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   From: jon.lennart.beck.its.my.name@mail.its.in.danmark   
      
   "Paul S. Person"  skrev i meddelelsen   
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   > I have always taken "people" in "people in the middle-ages believed   
   > that the Earth is flat" to refer to the uneducated hoi polloi   
   > landlubbers who, for all we know, /did/ believe that the Earth is   
   > flat.   
      
      Ludvig Holberg's play Erasmus Montanus, written in 1722, has as one of   
   its plot points that the simple villagers of Erasmus' home believe that the   
   world is flat, and the arrogant Erasmus on his return from being Educated in   
   Copenhagen has to eventually admit as much to them, so as to avoid military   
   service and marry his fiancée.   
      
   Ravn.   
      
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