[PW] flat earth?

[Pam Rider]

I am just looking for sources supporting or questioning the following. I 
question the statement as definitive. My understanding is that, although 
a number of mathematicians since early Egyptian times calculated a round 
earth, this did not enter the public consciousness until much later.

Are there sources that question?:

"The idea that Columbus and his contemporaries thought that the
Earth was flat is a twentieth-century invention. It was the work of
somebody who wrote a children's biography of Columbus about a hundred
years ago. I don't have the actual citation at hand, but Stephen Jay
Gould wrote a column about it.

The Earth's shape was proven in Ancient Egypt about 500 B.C.E.,
which was 2,000 years before Columbus. There are probably more people
today who believe in a flat earth than there were 500 years ago."
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Trying to walk cheerfully on the Earth


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