Furthermore, the earth casts a circular shadow on the moon when it's eclipsed by the earth. This was aristotle's basis for a spherical earth when he put forward the geocentric universe theory. This was nothing new as greeks had calculated the circumference of the earth with great accuracy back about 2500 years ago.
The spheres of the heavens with a spherical earth at the center has been a basic mythological concept for all of recorded history.
Point is that there was no divine inspiration or guess work. The concept of a spherical earth can be drawn from many observables (and was drawn as such by many non-hebrews who did not have the benefit of isaiah's "prophecy."
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