Settled Science, Really?

Most globalists will argue that the 'science' of a spinning ball Earth has long been settled, and that for many thousands of years all scholars, teachers, and professors have taught the globe model, right? Wrong. Just a few decades ago, it was intimated that the Head of the British Education Department (Sir John Gorst) should serve jail time for teaching the "damanable and heretical" doctrine that the Earth is a sphere. This newspaper clip from the Cook County Herald dated April 21, 1900 details the controversy. So were Britsh schools teaching the flat facts, a geocentric cosmology, per the Bible, just a few generations ago? It appears so ... https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?doc_id=mnhi0031%2F1HMB815A%2F00042101&init_width=600&recoffset=0&collection_filter=All&collection_name=47250251-83ea-48bd-969d-14341926855f&sort_col=title&CurSearchNum=-1&recOffset=0