Although imagining a boat full of people falling off the edge of the earth along a never ending waterfall of ocean water into the very depths of the universe is rather amusing, few people have thought that way since about sixty B.C. Beginning in elementary school, the idea that Christopher columbus was ahead of his time in believing that the world was round is a fact that is taught and widely believed throughout society. As a result, an eye catching title claiming that when the New World was discovered few people believed this now commonly accepted myth causes everything once held a surefire fact to be questioned. The article makes it sound as though historians have known for many years that nobody thought the world was flat since Pythagoras,