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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 2 years ago

Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?

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Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 2 years ago

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Basically, yes. Time, angles, geographic coordinates.
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  round things! time being a flat circle, obviously. ;)

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