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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.
Although many people believe that the flat-earth idea was common until recent times, and that the Bible encouraged this belief, that doesn't seem to be so. We did a study of 5000 writings back to the time of Plato and Aristotle, and could not find one writer who said the earth is flat.