....500 years ago it was well known that the Earth was not flat...

Certainly well-known to navigators...  I suppose GPS, etc, has

rendered such practical knowledge nugatory -  I'm told the US

Naval Academy no longer teaches Celestial Navigation.

Perhaps our cousins in the RN are a bit more stuck in the mud...
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