There is conflicting evidence about this. It is fair to say that some of the ancient Egyptians realised the earth must be round while most of them believed it to be flat. The earliest known calculation of the earth's circumference was made by Eratosthenes, a Greek mathematician, around 240 BC.
That the earth was flat.
The majority of the members of the Flat Earth Society do not believe the Earth is flat. They are members because it's a counter-culture group which some people find interesting.Those who think the Earth is flat are usually motivated by religious literalism.
Shape of the earth and the moon is round (spherical) . Although Sceintists have differtent onpinion about the shape of the space, it is believed that shape of space is flat (according to Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) model ).
a flat Earth.
People believed that the earth was flat
Flat
people who believed the earth is flat, not a sphere like most people believe.
Since the determination of the fact that Earth is spherical as opposed to flat, all scientists (after a short lag period) have accepted that it is so.
Columbus never believed the earth was square, in fact, the myth was that he believed the earth was flat. However, in truth, Columbus did not believe the earth was flat. Ancient Greek mathematicians, Pythagoras and Aristotle, proved the earth was spherical in shape based on the shadow of the earth on the moon and the curvature of the earth when approaching land. Columbus falsely believed he could reach Asia by going west because he underestimated the circumference of the earth, and also believed Europe was wider than it was.
No one believed that the earth was flat in the 1600 it was a well know fact that the world was round. This myth that people used to believe that the world was flat didn't exsist before 1870-1920. The myth probably came to existance because it was way more intriguing that Colombus in a world where everyone thought was flat was the only one who believed it was round.
no the world has always been round. but it was believed that the earth was flat because pioneers never traveled far enough to know then some one was smart enough to realize the earth was round.
There have been all kinds of cosmologies in past civilisations. In ancient times, at the dawn of western civilisation, it was commonly thought that the Earth was a flat surface, covered by a dome, suspended in water. Later, a few centuries BCE, the Greek figured out that the Earth was spherical, and were even able to roughly determine its circumference. They still believed that the Earth was at the center of everything, though, and that the Sun, stars and planets (which, according to the Greek, were simply "wandering stars") revolved around the Earth. It wasn't until the sixteenth century CE that Copernicus published a heliocentric model, challenging the geocentric model upheld by philosophers and religious authorities until that time. From then on, our models of the solar system became increasingly accurate, culminating in our current understanding.
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People once believed the earth was flat. But clearly it is not. People once believed the earth was the center of the universe and that it was held up or sat on the back of a tortoise (or creature of some sort) that also turned out not to be true~
Most ancient civilizations believed that everything revolved around the earth and in most cases they believed the earth to be flat. Also, it may have based around the religion of the civilization.
they believed that there 13 heavens and 9 hells. the sun fought darkness every night and rose to save mankind. they believed the earth was flat. submitted by Tanya.