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personally I don't think they ever really believed it. Some may have thought so because they thought the horizon was the end of the earth but there is ample evidence that ancient people watched the stars. If you look at the moon it is pretty clear that you are seeing a round ball so I'm sure that by the time people actually began to wonder about it and develop ways to look at the heavens they had already determined the earth was not flat. They used to teach us that Columbus sailed to prove the earth was not flat but that can't be true because the globe was invented long before Columbus was even born.

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