User blog comment:AdvancedRookie/Deep/@comment-1848120-20100505142044

The ancient greeks already expressed the "spherical earth" viewpoint. and by the 14th century the "flat earth" viewpoint was almost completely nonexistant by scholars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth

And about the geocentric model, did you know that about 1 in 5 adults still believe that the sun revolves around the earth?