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The Medieval Flat Earth Myth

History for Atheists

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Flat-Earthers in Ancient Greece: The Historical Consensus

Ancient Greek flat-earthers existed despite their romanticised rational image/nConsensus in the 6th and 5th centuries BC was that the earth was flat/nOpinion shifted towards a spherical earth in a spherical cosmos/nParmenides is attributed to the first mention of a spherical earth in the 5th century BC

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