The Origins of Flat Earth

One of history's greatest misconceptions is that people believe that the earth was flat up until relatively recently when columba sailed the ocean blue in 1492. The first person in modern times to argue about the shape of the earth was a man named Samuel Robotham Robotham would travel to various universities in england and lecture on his theory for the meager sum of six pence per talk not bad. After he couldn't explain why the hall of the ship disappeared before the mast in one lecture he just ran away he just running away he just like like a squid like he was like he shot come he'll never see me in my cloud oh and ran away no it's hard because the