Not until the work of Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Aristotle was the flat Earth intuition truly dispelled. The same goes for the belief that the Earth is at the centre of the Universe, the geocentric model.

Ludwig Wittgenstein beautifully pointed to the incurious nature of this type of intuitive epistemology:

“Tell me,” Wittgenstein’s asked a friend, “why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?” His friend replied, “Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth.” Wittgenstein replied, “Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?”