How early do you think this truth was realized and taught?

since columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1482 or however that jingle goes

Are you sure about that estimate? If we suppose that they thought the earth was flat prior to Columbus, do you think they would have given him ships to sail right off the face of the earth?

Looking for a real answer!

This post was edited by iceyJDP on Jun 25 2010 09:18am

maybe. if he was enough of a dick and sopmeone aactually had a very elaborate plan to get rid of him.

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During Hellenistic Greece it seems to have been universally accepted that the world was a sphere. Given their advanced astronomy it seems almost certain that the Persians had also figured this out.
So the person who first discovered that the world was round was probably some Persian or Babylonian astrologer 3, 000 years ago.

but it certainly wasn't taught back then

Yes, it was actually a mathematician from Cyrene who lived from about 279-195 BC

Why wouldn't it be? The idea of a flat or round earth would have been of great concern to them. They weren't sitting at home on D2jsp all day. They had to travel and observe things.

What about that Greek God that had to hold the World over his head, wasn't that a sphere?

the greeks new it was round because you could see the top of a ships mast before you saw the rest of the ship when it was on the horizon. also they did some shit with triangulating shadows or something

you phrased your question wrong

you should be asking 'when did mass consciousness succumb to lies paraded as 'science'?'