Flat Earth theory | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-17

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00:00:59 1 History
00:01:07 1.1 Belief in flat Earth
00:01:16 1.1.1 West Asia
00:02:34 1.1.2 Greece
00:02:41 1.1.2.1 Poets
00:03:17 1.1.2.2 Philosophers
00:04:43 1.1.2.3 Historians
00:05:09 1.1.3 Europe
00:06:47 1.1.4 East Asia
00:10:36 1.2 Alternate or mixed theories
00:10:45 1.2.1 Greece: spherical Earth
00:12:04 1.2.2 South Asia
00:13:30 1.2.3 Early Christian Church
00:18:48 1.2.4 Europe: Early Middle Ages
00:20:53 1.2.5 Europe: Late Middle Ages
00:22:46 1.2.6 Middle East: Islamic scholars
00:24:38 1.2.7 Ming Dynasty in China
00:26:04 1.3 Myth of flat-Earth prevalence
00:27:07 2 Modern Flat-Earthers
00:33:42 2.1 Flat Earth Society
00:35:41 2.2 Internet-era resurgence
00:36:55 2.3 Conspiracy theory
00:37:45 3 Cultural references
00:38:30 4 See also



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The flat Earth model is an archaic conception of Earth's shape as a plane or disk. Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat Earth cosmography, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period (early centuries AD), and China until the 17th century.
The idea of a spherical Earth appeared in Greek philosophy with Pythagoras (6th century BC), although most pre-Socratics (6th–5th century BC) retained the flat Earth model. Aristotle provided evidence for the spherical shape of the Earth on empirical grounds by around 330 BC. Knowledge of the spherical Earth gradually began to spread beyond the Hellenistic world from then on.Despite the scientific fact of Earth's sphericity, pseudoscientific flat Earth conspiracy theories are espoused by modern flat Earth societies and, increasingly, by unaffiliated individuals using social media.