0
I think they did . If you look at the Great Pyramid and the mathmatics involved they would have had to have known that the earth was round or the exact placing and measurements of the pyramid would never have happened. Here is the maths and the staggering accuracy involved. The Pyramid faces true north if you draw a line from North to South which is three minutes and six seconds deviant from the celestial meridian. Its base length is 230m 36 cm 4mm, the circumference is 921m 45cm 6mm. This means that if you drew a circle around the base it would be exact for a circle around its hight! Multiply the length of the side of the Pyramid by 2 then divide the result by the height, the answer will be 230. 364 multiply this by 2 and divided by 146.599 equals 3.14 Pi ! This is the ratio of the circle's circumference to its diameter contained in the Pyramid. This accuracy proves that the ancient Egyptions were aware of the spherical nature of the earth. To have this advanced knowledge of mathematics means they could had already calculated the radius and circumference of the earth. If they didn't know this then someone or something told them . I will leave that to others to discuss but In an infinate universe can we really be that blinkered to believe that we are alone or have not been visited at different points in evolution and shown or helped in other ways.
Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
javabum
Wiki User
∙ 15y agoInitially proposed by Pythagoras, Eratosthenes in about 240 BCE had calculated its circumference fairly accurately.
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoThe world was known to be round much earlier than the Roman Empire. The ancient Greeks proved it was round many years beforehand.
Wiki User
∙ 14y agoBecause the earths shadow was showed on the moon, during a ellipse.
Wiki User
∙ 6y agoNo. People thought the earth was flat
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Did Columbus think the earth was round?
He didn't. It was well-known at the time of Columbus that the earth is round.
What caused Columbus to think he had reached Asia?
He thought the earth was flat and it is round
Did Christopher Columbus think that there was only one ocean?
Yes. He thought the Earth was flat, but in 1964 astronauts realised that Earth was round Yes. The astronauts did report and see that the Earth was round and that there was more than one ocean.
Why did europeans think the world was flat in 1410?
because they thought that if a boat went across the water or out of sight they went of the end of the earth there was no proof of the earth being round in ancient times..
Who is famous person discovered that the world was round?
pedro menendez
Why do people think the earth is round?
It is round!
How did they think people got on to earth?
They thought people had always existed.
What shape did renaissance people think the earth was?
Round. Most people by the time of Columbus did not believe the Earth was flat, despite what some history books will tell you.
Did Columbus think the earth was round?
He didn't. It was well-known at the time of Columbus that the earth is round.
Evidences that prove the real shape of the earth?
i dont think that the earth is flat .it is round in shape. if we go a journey around the world we will stop in the place we started .I think the earth is round in shape.
What shape did colonial settlers think earth was?
round
Why did people think Christopher Columbus was wrong when he said the earth was round?
Because the curvature of the earth is so gentle, do to it's size, people couldn't understand how it could be curved as it looks flat.
Who was the person that discovered that the world was round?
This had been known since the ancient Greeks. It is a fable that people didn't know this. Despite the fact we have seen earth from space there are people who think the earth is flat.
Did people always think that the earth was round and that the sun was in the middle of the solar system?
Always? No. Some people thought the Earth was a disk held up by four elephants on the back of a giant turtle (a motiv adpoted by a popular science-fiction/fantasy series). Aristarchos of Samos published the first heliocentric model, but it was centuries before the so-called Copernican theory was generally accepted.
When did Aristotle think the sun goes round the earth?
1949
Who first announced his belief that the world is round?
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.
Why did Columbus think that the earth was flat?
He didn't. It was well-known at the time of Columbus that the earth is round.
