Does spherical earth count? I couldn’t find any sources saying the idea was seen as ridiculous, especially around the time that they actually discovered it was round via physical measurements.
There is indeed the Myth of the flat Earth that is a misconception about the beliefs of scholars in the Middle Ages and some scholars certainly understood the concept of a spherical Earth since at least Eratosthenes. I’m referring to earlier history like ancient Egyptian, Chinese, and pre-Socratic Greek cosmologies. Admittedly, it’s not a great example since most of the debates about it are lost to history, and such debates wouldn’t involve the same kind of reasoning and evidential standards we use today.
Does spherical earth count? I couldn’t find any sources saying the idea was seen as ridiculous, especially around the time that they actually discovered it was round via physical measurements.
There is indeed the Myth of the flat Earth that is a misconception about the beliefs of scholars in the Middle Ages and some scholars certainly understood the concept of a spherical Earth since at least Eratosthenes. I’m referring to earlier history like ancient Egyptian, Chinese, and pre-Socratic Greek cosmologies. Admittedly, it’s not a great example since most of the debates about it are lost to history, and such debates wouldn’t involve the same kind of reasoning and evidential standards we use today.