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I can't be bothered to fact check this, but wasn't the spherical earth common knowledge by Columbus's time?
I thought the real story was that he was trying to sail to India* westwards, thus avoiding having to go around Africa. Everyone thought the crew would starve to death before they got there, which they would have, if they hadn't conveniently bumped into the Americas.