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What discovery helped the discovery that the earth is round happen?
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∙ 11y ago
Most people will tell you that Columbus' voyages proved it, but the truth is, we already had a pretty good idea the earth was round by 1492. Actually, Aristotle, an ancient Greek thinker, proved it using geometry by digging holes at different latitudes on the same day of the year and measuring shadows. Going into the Age of Discovery, the whole "flat earth" notion was more of a misconception than a belief.
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∙ 11y ago
One discovery that helped confirm the Earth is round was the circumnavigation of the globe by Ferdinand Magellan in the 16th century. This voyage demonstrated that it was possible to travel eastward in a straight line and end up back where you started, which supported the idea of a spherical Earth. Additionally, observations of the Earth's curved shadow during lunar eclipses also provided evidence for a round Earth.
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Ferdinand Magellan helped America and the world by proving that the Earth was round.
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J A Happen to the man who said earth is round?
He has been killed and he died without being able to prove it.
How do you say that the earth is round?
umm: "The Earth is round"? ------------------------------------------------ The Earth is not round - it is an oblate spheroid. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A (slightly) oblate spheroid seems pretty "round" to me.
