This knowledge spread with Greek influence such that during the Early Middle Ages (~600–1000 AD), most European and Middle Eastern scholars espoused Earth's sphericity. ![]() The belief was widespread in the Greek world when Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of Earth around 240 BC. The earliest clear documentation of the idea of a spherical Earth comes from the ancient Greeks ( 5th century BC). The myth of the flat Earth, or the flat-Earth error, is a modern historical misconception that European scholars and educated people during the Middle Ages believed the Earth to be flat. The famous "Flat Earth" Flammarion engraving originates with Flammarion's 1888 L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire (p. ![]() ![]() Misconception that people in the Middle Ages believed Earth to be flat
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