The guy who asked is trying to help you understand that people in the "dark" ages didn't believe the earth was flat. Western society has known the earth is round since Antiquity. The ancient Greeks even guessed the size of the earth quite accurately considering they were, you know, ancient.
I never said I thought people in the dark ages thought the world was flat.
It was an example of how people can reject any idea or knowledge even if it's true because they believe something else, and people did struggle at first with this idea...
So, whether astronomy was a thing or not in the dark ages, there probably was some percentage of people freaking out....
The uneducated.. stubborn religious figures.. etc..
That's all my OC was.
I'm not generalizing anything, you said the dark ages, which is an era specific to European history. The dominant religion was Catholicism, which was at the forefront of astronomy of that era. They knew they Earth was round, they understood and could predict eclipses. They weren't quite ready to accept heliocentrism for theological reasons, but no one is perfect.
Christianity being the dominant religion of that time.. so it's safe to say that the majority of these religious people were not educated in Astronomy and I'd even say that a percentage of those people completely rejected astronomy.
Just an opinion.
So.. imagine seeing this in the dark ages and what religious people must have thought and what they may have done to appease god when the devil is in the sky.
There is no need to argue against a harmless comment that was just a passing thought.
The majority of people today aren't educated in astronomy, but that's beside the point.
The Catholic Church and European society during the middle ages was almost OCD about record keeping and writing down crazy random shit that happened. Yet we don't have any account of people from that time losing their minds because of an eclipse looking like horns. We do have accounts of spectacular meteor showers and what may have been a star going supernova and stunning the population.
The only thing it is safe to say is that you seem to really want to believe that people back then were just plain stupid. They weren't. They understood the concept of an eclipse, and were able to predict and anticipate them. They would have known there was going to be an eclipse. It wasn't a surprise.
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u/Outcast199008 1d ago
Imagine seeing this in the dark age.