No, that is a myth. Columbus knew that the earth was a sphere. He tried to take a short cut to the East Indies from Europe by sailing west because he had miscalculated the circumference of the earth. Turns out the globe was a bit bigger than he imagined and he ended up in the Bahamas, instead of Japan as he had planned.
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