> If you're referring to Columbus with the 600 years ago statement Indeed I was but not necessarily him specifically, but the average Javascript engineer at th

> If you're referring to Columbus with the 600 years ago statement Indeed I was but not necessarily him specifically, but the average Javascript engineer at the time. I was just now reading about Eratosthenes[0], to check my priors because I had been taught some people had speculated it way earlier. The article claims: > By around 500 B.C., most ancient Greeks believed that Earth was round, not flat That surprised me. But, here I'm stuck thinking how difficult is me to verify that claim. I'd probably need a few years of Classics and then access artifacts that are one thousand years old. I can totally understand how earnest skepticism unravels into madness. [0](https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200606/history.cfm https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200606/history.cfm)