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The idea of a spherical Earth appeared in Greek philosophy with Pythagoras (6th century BC), although most pre-Socratics (6th â 5th century BC) retained the flat Earth model. Aristotle provided evidence for the spherical shape of the Earth on empirical grounds by around 330 BC.
Itâs a far too common myth that people thought the world was flat before Columbus. Europeans knew the world was round since the Classical period, and civilizations in Asia and Meso-America knew it too. Itâs only recent years, with the illogicalness of religosity in opposition to science that its even become a thing.