A National Look at the Use of Congregate Care in Child Welfare. congregate care.
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.
For the Belgian band, see Flat Earth Society (band). Modern flat Earth societies are based on the archaic belief that the Earth is flat. Modern flat Earth hypotheses originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham (1816â1884).