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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1684418, member: 19463&quot;][ATTACH]253039.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>While any well preserved globe type will show the details to some degree, I bought this Arles Phoenixbecause of how well it showed the bands and dots on the globe.&nbsp; These are regularly shown on globes from the time of the Flavians to this issue.&nbsp; There is dispute as to whether these make the round thing a armillary sphere rather than a representation of the round earth.&nbsp; I do not know.&nbsp; It is interesting how the same evidence can &#039;prove&#039; opposite interpretations to those predisposed to proving their answer correct.&nbsp; I agree that the ancients knew the earth was round but I am less sure that this proves anything.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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