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Flat Earth belief is pretty much as old as writing. Long history here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth
There are two types of flat Earth belief, and the writing above is definitely the latter, more recent, and willfully ignorance crowd.
More recent, but still 19th century.