Flat Earth
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The Flat Earth model is a view that the Earth's shape is a flat plane or disk.
Various ancient cultures had conceptions of a flat Earth, such as Babylon, Ancient Egypt, pre-Classical Greece, pre-Classical India and pre-17th century China. This view remained long dominant in ancient thought until the realization first recorded around the 4th century BC in Classical Greece that the Earth is spherical. From Greek astronomy, the paradigm of the rotundity of the earth gradually spread around the world supplanting the older cosmological belief in a flat earth.
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See also
- Myth of the Flat Earth
- Bedford Level experiment
- Denialism
- Earth's rotation
- Geographical distance
- Hollow earth
- Scientific mythology
- Skepticism
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