Knowledge of the Earth's global shape gradually began to spread beyond the Hellenistic world. By about 330 BC, his former student Aristotle had provided strong empirical evidence for a spherical Earth. In the early 4th century BC, Plato wrote about a spherical Earth. However, most pre-Socratics (6th–5th century BC) retained the flat-Earth model.
The idea of a spherical Earth appeared in ancient Greek philosophy with Pythagoras (6th century BC). Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat-Earth cosmography. The map contains several references to biblical passages as well as various jabs at the "Globe Theory".įlat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk. For other uses, see Flat Earth (disambiguation).įlat Earth map drawn by Orlando Ferguson in 1893. For the historical misconception that people during the Middle Ages believed that the Earth was flat, see Myth of the flat Earth. For modern-day beliefs that the Earth is flat, see Modern flat Earth beliefs. This article is about the disproven cosmological model.
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