"A round Earth appears at least as early as the sixth century B.C.
onward believed that the Earth was flat," historian Jeffrey Burton Russell wrote in 1997. "With extraordinary few exceptions, no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. Even astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson got things a bit wrong-sacrilege, I know-when he tweeted that B.o.B was "five centuries regressed in reasoning." In reality, knowledge that the Earth is spherical is much older than that, and hasn't been seriously questioned by more than a few wingnuts in the last two millennia. Not only do no serious, intellectually honest people currently believe the Earth is flat the fact is this was never a widespread belief, at least in the way that you may have heard.
While B.o.B is obviously wrong about the shape of the Earth-an assertion that seems too silly to bother correcting in detail-he is right about being deceived. Atlanta rapper B.o.B got a lot of attention this week by suggesting in a series of tweets that he believes that the Earth is flat, saying we have all "been tremendously deceived."
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