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The film suggests that, during the time of Columbus, it was believed that the world was flat. In fact, the round Earth theory was established in ancient Greece and it was common knowledge to every educated person of the time.
The myth of Columbus trying to establish the world was round originates in Washington Irving's highly fictionalized biography, "A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus". Irving has fictional account of the meetings of a commission set up by the Spanish sovereigns to look over Columbus's proposals. Irving has the improbable story that the more ignorant members on the commission raised scriptural objections to Columbus's beliefs that the Earth a sphere. The real issue was the distance to Asia going West.

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