--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How long did most of "western civilization" believe the world was flat?
Depends on who you mean by "western civilization." The medieval collegia taught that the world was round, and even had a reasonably good value for its size. That was Columbus' problem: everyone knew, correctly as it turns out, that they couldn't outfit a ship to go across the Atlantic and get to China. Columbus' expedition would have perished if they hadn't run into an unknown continent. The fable that people thought it was flat was invented by Washington Irving. The story was just too good to pass up, and the truth that Columbus cooked up a bogus set of figures for the size of the earth in order to get his expedition off was just too depressing. John Roth > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Standley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 5:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [XP] Re: Barry Boehm talking about Agile Software > Development > > > > I think it was here I read a discussion about organizations showing > symptoms or traits of humans with mental illness. How long can a group > pretend one thing while reality is something else? Anybody recall that, > have any links? > > > To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com > Yahoo! Groups Links To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
