Columbus Didn’t Discover That The Earth Is Round
According to The Washington Post, people with a strong educational background already suspected that the Earth wasn’t flat. Apparently, this was common knowledge for centuries among intellectuals. As a matter of fact, a bunch of clever ancient Greeks believed that the planet was round.
They stated their beliefs during the time of Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C.E. During the middle ages, a few Europeans still believed that the earth was flat. But this myth may have started when Washington Irving published a fictional biography about Christopher Columbus where he erroneously stated that his voyages proved that the Earth wasn’t flat.