No one could claim the earth was flat after this man's expedition circumnavigated the globe in 1522
It landed on September 6, 1522 about three years after their initial 
departure, ... People in Columbus' Time Did Not Think the World Was Flat... [DOC] [TLE] Spherical Earth - Wikipedia [PAR] The earliest reliably documented mention of the spherical Earth concept dates 
from around the ... After the 5th century BC, no Greek writer of repute thought the 
world was ...