= Myth of the flat Earth
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The Myth of the Flat Earth refers to a common misconception that, during the Middle Ages, people widely believed in a flat Earth and that this belief was only corrected by the work of scientists like Christopher Columbus and Galileo Galilei. In reality, the idea of a spherical Earth was well established among educated people in the ancient world, including the Greeks, and was further confirmed by various forms of evidence and observations.
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