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The ancient Greeks had worked out that the world was round by looking at the shadow that the Earth makes on the moon. Colombus knew it was round.
Round. Most people by the time of Columbus did not believe the Earth was flat, despite what some history books will tell you.
The Gupta Empire astronomers proved the earth was round by studying the moon during a lunar eclipse. They noticed that the earths shadow on the moon was round, meaning that the earth itself was round.
Yes Jacques Cartier believed that the world was round.
no the world has always been round. but it was believed that the earth was flat because pioneers never traveled far enough to know then some one was smart enough to realize the earth was round.
The ancient Greeks had worked out that the world was round by looking at the shadow that the Earth makes on the moon. Colombus knew it was round.
He thought it was round.
Ptolemy believed that the Earth was the center of our universe
The Ancient Greeks figured that out, but if you don't believe them find a photo from space of earth. It is round.
The Ancient Greeks figured that out, but if you don't believe them find a photo from space of earth. It is round.
Eratosthenes 5th Century BCE.
It was the Italian Galileo who poved that the earth rotates round the sun.
The moon is a satellite. Greeks in the 3rd century BCE noticed the earth's shadow across the moon during lunar eclipses was round, indicating the earth was spherical in shape. In the 20th century the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, orbited the earth in about 90 minutes.
Many people think Christopher Columbus was the first person to believe that the Earth was round. Pythagoras however was the first person to actually believe this.
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Just because of their ignorance.
umm: "The Earth is round"? ------------------------------------------------ The Earth is not round - it is an oblate spheroid. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A (slightly) oblate spheroid seems pretty "round" to me.