Yes, there is a small number of idiots who believe that, there have always been a small number of idiots who believe that- but they've never been the majority and certainly not any of the educated populace.
Everything in the sky is round (big clue). Ships appear OVER the horizon even on a flat ocean - huge clue that it's not really flat. The clues that the earth are round are so obvious that it was known at least as far back as the mesopotamians. They didn't calculate it's size like the Greeks did, but they sure understood it, and even understood and documented the precession of the equinoxes - a 26-thousand year cycle !

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