In the Ptolemaic system, the earth is a sphere which is the center of a system of concentric spheres holding various heavenly bodies.  In the Tychonic system, the earth is also a sphere (because everybody believed the earth was a sphere) with a sphere around it holding the sun, while some other heavenly bodies are in spheres centered on the sun.

The quote above does not refer to the sphericity of the earth, but, as it plainly says, to "spheres in the heavens".  Brahe was saying that the spheres which hold heavenly bodies are not physical objects but mathematical constructs to understand their movement.

St. Bede, back around 800 AD, gave proofs to show that the earth is a sphere in reality and that has been the dominant belief among Catholics since that time at least.

There is nothing in the Brahe quote to indicate that the condemnation of heliocentrism should be understood to include a spherical earth.

Few astronomers were convinced that the earth orbited the sun.  This is not surprising, since neither Copernicus nor Galileo made a compelling case for that view.

It was however widely accepted that the earth was a globe because that belief existed independently of the Copernican system.  It was widely accepted because it was taught at universities (which were Catholic institutions throughout the middle ages). There were books, although not as common before the invention of the printing press, and copies exist of the medieval university texts which taught the earth is a globe. Being educated was practically synonymous with believing the earth was a globe.  

The highest levels of the Church hierarchy would mostly have had this sort of education.

As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth, where the sun rises when it sets on us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, there is no reason for believing it. Those who affirm it do not claim to possess any actual information; they merely conjecture that, since the earth is suspended within the concavity of the heavens, and there is as much room on the one side of it as on the other, therefore the part which is beneath cannot be void of human inhabitants. They fail to notice that, even should it be believed or demonstrated that the world is round or spherical in form, it does not follow that the part of the earth opposite to us is not completely covered with water, or that any conjectured dry land there should be inhabited by men. For Scripture, which confirms the truth of its historical statements by the accomplishment of its prophecies, teaches not falsehood; and it is too absurd to say that some men might have set sail from this side and, traversing the immense expanse of ocean, have propagated there a race of human beings descended from that one first man."

Wikipedia says no such thing.  You cannot give a quote of it saying that everyone prior to Copernicus was a flat earther.

Yes, many ancient people believed in a flat earth but Aristotle and Ptolemy were highly influential teachers of spherical earth. This belief dominated the West for most of the time since Christ.

That's not quite what I said.  Wiki says most ancients were flat earthers and the multitude of drawings and maps proving that are readily available on Wiki and the Internet.  

  Wikipedia favors the heliocentric globe and still admits all nations of antiquity, that is prior to Copernicus, were flat earthers.  That is, until it was all polluted by the Revolution. 

The earliest reliably docuмented mention of the spherical Earth concept dates from around the 6th century BC when it appeared in ancient Greek philosophy^[1][2] but remained a matter of speculation until the 3rd century BC, when Hellenistic astronomy established the spherical shape of the Earth as a physical given. The paradigm was gradually adopted throughout the Old World during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.^[3][4][5][6] A practical demonstration of Earth's sphericity was achieved by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano's expedition's circuмnavigation(1519−1522).^[7]
The concept of a spherical Earth displaced earlier beliefs in a flat Earth:

From its Greek origins, the idea of a spherical earth, along with much of Greek astronomical thought, slowly spread across the globe and ultimately became the adopted view in all major astronomical traditions.^[3][4][5][6]
In the West, the idea came to the Romans through the lengthy process of cross-fertilization with Hellenistic civilization. Many Roman authors such as Cicero and Pliny refer in their works to the rotundity of the earth as a matter of course.^[30]

Your exact words were:
Wikipedia does not say what you claim. The article may be seen at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth  It says that spherical earth was adopted long before Copernicus:


There is nothing on Wikipedia to support your claim that belief in a spherical earth was introduced by Copernicus.

Wiki:
The ancient Israelites envisaged a universe made up of a flat disc-shaped earth floating on water, heaven above, underworld below.^[6]
The Hebrew Bible depicted a three-part world, with the heavens (shamayim) above, earth (eres) in the middle, and the underworld (sheol) below.^[22] After the 4th century BCE this was gradually replaced by a Greek scientific cosmology of a spherical earth surrounded by multiple concentric heavens.^[6]
In the Old Testament the word shamayim represented both the sky/atmosphere, and the dwelling place of God.^[30] The raqia or firmament - the visible sky - was a solid inverted bowl over the earth, coloured blue from the heavenly ocean above it.^[31] Rain, snow, wind and hail were kept in storehouses outside the raqia, which had "windows" to allow them in - the waters for Noah's flood entered when the "windows of heaven" were opened.[32
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In the Old Testament period, the earth was most commonly thought of as a flat disc floating on water.^[17] The concept was apparently quite similar to that depicted in a Babylonian world-map from about 600 BCE: a single circular continent bounded by a circular sea,^[50] and beyond the sea a number of equally spaced triangles called nagu, "distant regions", apparently islands although possibly mountains.^[51]
Medieval European T and O maps such as the Hereford Mappa Mundi were centred on Jerusalem with East at the top.
Azimuthal or Gnomonic map projections are often used in planning air routes due to their ability to represent great circles as straight lines.


Ha ha!  One has to wonder about mapping out and planning air routes as straight lines? Certainly not because the earth is a globe.

I provide you a single source hinting at Copernicus remaking earth a globe (from Pythagorean doctrine), proving that it is actually you that cling to error no matter what.    


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An astronomical system positing that the Earth, Moon, Sun and planets revolve around an unseen "Central Fire" was developed in the 5th century BC and has been attributed to the Pythagorean philosopher Philolaus, a version based on Stobaeus account, who betrays a tendency to confound the dogmas of the early Ionian philosophers, and he occasionally mixes up Platonism with Pythagoreanism.^[1] Brewer (1894, page 2293) mentioned Pythagoras taught that the sun is a movable sphere in the centre of the universe, and that all the planets revolve round it.^[2]
The system has been called "the first coherent system in which celestial bodies move in circles",^[3] anticipating Copernicus in moving "the earth from the center of the cosmos [and] making it a planet"