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Clearwater Beach

This is Clearwater Beach. That's really the white-out conditions of the sand reflection. This beach is like paradise. It's easy to get to, and easy to fall in love with.

This is a typical sunset on any given day.

 I thought this gave a good sense of how easy it is to see the curvature of the earth. The globe was introduced in the 1300's. 1260's to 1490's is plenty of time to spread the knowledge, I don't see the mystery.

Early terrestrial globes depicting the entirety of the Old World were constructed in the Islamic world.^[2][3] According to David Woodward, one such example was the terrestrial globe introduced to Beijing by the Persian astronomer, Jamal ad-Din, in 1267.^[4]
The oldest surviving terrestrial globe is the Erdapfel, created by Martin Behaim in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1492.^[1] A facsimile globe showing America was made by Martin Waldseemueller in 1507. Another early globe, the Hunt-Lenox Globe, ca. 1507, is thought to be the source of the phrase "Here be dragons". Another "remarkably modern-looking" terrestrial globe of the Earth was constructed by Taqi al-Din at the Istanbul observatory of Taqi al-Din during the 1570s.^[5]