Before you ask, no I didn’t have any encounters with people who claimed Earth was flat. I’m just curious.
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Well, it was theorized by Eratosthenes of Cyrene around 270 b.c.
He even calculated the circumference of the earth with a really smart technique involving the sun, shadows, a stick and a camel; he got it wrong by a really small margin, which is pretty impressive
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