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Originally Posted by arsenal
Fairly well known example:
Columbus goes against all the scientists at the time and claims that the earth is round and not flat. He is pretty much alone, gets funding, goes off and discovers a whole new world, and proves that the earth is infact round.
The well known scientists of the time where wrong. Columbus was right.
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Uh, that's actually just a "well known myth." Everyone knew the earth was round in 1492. There's some interesting reading on the topic here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus
As a matter of fact, Columbus and everyone around him knew the earth was round, but he thought it was smaller than it actually is. The scientists were right, and Columbus was wrong. But he did accidentally discover this little land mass that nobody knew about when he was trying to find the West Indies.