I mean if you think about it, if the world was flat, wouldn't water just runof the edge and opens be empty? What? Did they think it just stopped? Or was it just such a commonly held belief, so popular of an idea to the masses, everybody just took it on face value? Was it because of the zeitgeist? How would sailors know how far out they could travel before they would get swept over a endless waterfall into space? Didn't they notice that any one that went looking for the edge, usually cane home?

I don't know if this is allowed, but I'm also interested in other beliefs that were completely foolish but had to overcome a ridiculous set of scientific misnomers to be applied for it to even be considered. Im not as interested as things like seeing the sun as rotating around earth, we can all understand how that could have misconstrued. T gins that were mind boggling in the masses beliefs.