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What did Columbus say the world was?
at first he thought the world was flat then later on he found out it round Actually, he always knew it was round. He just thought it would be a short trip across the Atlantic to reach Asia because he believed the world was a lot smaller than it is. He also had no idea there were two continents in the way.
Did socrates say that the earth is round?
christopher columbus
Why are map projectors needed?
The world is round (well - spherical) but maps are flat. Or you could say 3D vrs 2D.
Is sae young a flat or round character?
flat. it would sound like "say" -hope this helps!
Why are fingernails round on top and some are flat?
genetics as they say were all special so our geneas pass down some may have flat and some round
When was the world argued it was flat?
Aristotle first argued it was round even though earlier greeks had said other wise. There is many to this day that still say it is flat otherwise we would all fall off.
Why do some say that Columbus's famous discovery an accident?
Christopher Columbus was actually hired to find a way to India from the west instead of the east. Knowing the world was round, when he came across America he presumed it to be Asia. (Why native Americans are known as Indians.)
What is the difference between flatworms and segmented worms?
(it would be false to say that all flatworms are parasitic--the idiot that wrote that wasn't so smart, so I had to change that-- because the PLANARIAN-for example, is flatworm and that is a harmless little critter) ~round worms are ROUND ~flat worms are FLAT ~Round worms have 2 body openings (mouth & anus) *random fact: 1/2 of all roundworms are PARASITIC, and 50 species affect humans**
Why do Filipinos say that the world is round?
All races say it is.
What are the Lyrics to Pecola?
Some say the world is round they do they do that it's flat and down but heres some news if you look at it up close at the end of nose its a great big box were dreams unfold all the world is square all the world is square who wants to be square PECOLA!
Is the world square but people say that it's round?
People think it's square but look at a globe. Does it look square or round? If you answered round, you are correct! To make it easier to understand, the world is round. So no.
What happened when Columbus said the world is not flat?
Columbus never claimed the world was not flat, because nobody at the time believed anything else.As a matter of fact.. as far back as 500 B.C. people knew that the earth was round.Romans had globes, they just had no knowledge of North and South America.Eratosthenes of Cyrene 276 BCE - 194 BCE a Greek mathametician calculated the curcumfernence of the Earth (with remarkable accuracy), and the tilt of the earth's axis (again with remarkable accuracy); His measurements of the cucumference of the Earth had an error of less then 1%. And people before hime already knew it was round... they just didn't know the distance until EratosthenesWhat Columbus did in fact say is that Eratosthenes' calculations were wrong and that the earth was only 3/4 of the calculated size, which would make a westward sealane to China possible.
