In the Ancient world, Atlas held a globe. When did humans start thinking the earth was flat?

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Question by John J: In the Ancient world, Atlas held a globe. When did humans start thinking the earth was flat?

In ancient sculptures and drawings, the Earth was depicted as being round. Atlas was shown as holding the Earth in the form of a globe. At what point did "flat earth" become the dominent theory?




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Answer by dukalink6000
Flat in the fact that there was as edge.

They knew the world had some degree of curvature

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