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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.
In 1828, Irving wrote âThe Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus,â which sounds like a biography but is mostly fiction. It says that Europeans learned from Columbusâs trips to the New World that the planet was round. Letronne insisted that early Christian writers thought the Earth was flat. Though they did not, he was widely quoted for many years. Others, too, helped perpetuate the myth.