Here be dragons … and what they really meant to those who included them.
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Not to get too hung up on the “Flat Earth” (FE) discussion, but perhaps that can be a placeholder for belief that serves some other purpose? Can “The Edge of the World” serve the same purpose on a map as “Here be Dragons”? Do modern believers in FE regard this in the same manner as Dragons, ghosts/spirits, Giants in the Earth, etc.? At what point does a belief pass from the default due to lack of any other knowledge, to a belief which is false yet retains purpose? If this makes any sense at all, then perhaps modern FE has acquired new meaning which most of us do not understand.
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Yes, that’s probably right.
We grew up with Euclidean geometry and Cartesian coordinates. Our notion of “flat” comes from there, and is likely not what ancient people were thinking.
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