Morholt
Prince
This is a bit of nonsense. The roundness of the earth was never proven by maps, in fact the Greeks proved it mathematically long before the age of exploration.
While the geocentric worldview with a clover-shaped earth with Jerusalem in the middle was the official stance of the church during the middle ages, educated people and scholars knew full well that the world was round. Columbus himself had no doubts about it, even though he misestimated the circumference rather horribly - he believed that the western way to india would be rather short.
In short, while the "You are the first to circumnavigate the earth" message was historical and appropriate, the new one is not. The change seems a bit silly to me.
Just saying.
While the geocentric worldview with a clover-shaped earth with Jerusalem in the middle was the official stance of the church during the middle ages, educated people and scholars knew full well that the world was round. Columbus himself had no doubts about it, even though he misestimated the circumference rather horribly - he believed that the western way to india would be rather short.
In short, while the "You are the first to circumnavigate the earth" message was historical and appropriate, the new one is not. The change seems a bit silly to me.
Just saying.