This knowledge spread with Greek influence such that during the Early Middle Ages (~600–1000 AD), most European and Middle Eastern scholars espoused Earth's sphericity.
The belief was widespread in the Greek world when Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of Earth around 240 BC. The earliest clear documentation of the idea of a spherical Earth comes from the ancient Greeks ( 5th century BC). The myth of the flat Earth, or the flat-Earth error, is a modern historical misconception that European scholars and educated people during the Middle Ages believed the Earth to be flat. The famous "Flat Earth" Flammarion engraving originates with Flammarion's 1888 L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire (p. Misconception that people in the Middle Ages believed Earth to be flat
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