Pythagoras, around 500 BC proposed that the earth was round, but it was of aesthetic and mystical reasons. So the first discovered person should be an anonymous Persian or Babylonian around 3,000 years ago.
It was generally assumed by pretty much everyone in ancient Greece. We don't know who exactly came up with the idea, but we do know that in about 240 BC, Eratosthenes actually came up with a (rather accurate) notion of exactly how BIG it was around by measuring the angle the sun made at noon at two different points on Earth, and figuring out how big a circle would be required for that to happen... he was only off by about 2%.
Pythagoras was first to say it in the 6th century BC, 2100 years before Columbus and Magellan.
Whoever said Ferdinand Magellan is completely WRONG. Magellan came 27 years after Columbus first landed in the Americas in 1492, and the thought that Columbus was the first to propose the Earth was round is a myth. That fact was already widely believed by then. Magellan was first to sail around the world, not the first to say it was round.
That fact has been known since ancient times. The Greeks around 450 BCE measured the distance from the earth to the moon as 60 times the earth's diameter, by noting the ratio of time it took earth's shadow to cross the moon during a lunar eclipse to the moon's orbit around the earth. Clever Greeks. Then about 250 BCE Eratosthenes the Greek, working as a librarian in Alexandria, Egypt, figured out how to calculate the circumference of the earth using solstice shadows at varying latitudes.
The Ancient Greeks, in about 300 BC. They also calculated its size to a value very close to its true value - much closer than Columbus considered it to be.
ancient greeks, moslem scholars, etc.
Eratosthenes
Galileo
it was ferdinand magellan who circumnavigated the world
Eratosthenes did.
Galileo.
In a laboratory constant temperature room.
its not its spherical
Galileo
The concept of a spherical Earth dates back to ancient Greek scholars, around the 6th century BC. Philosophers like Pythagoras and later Aristotle provided evidence for a round Earth through observations of celestial bodies and the shape of Earth's shadow during lunar eclipses.
Nigeria did not pass the first round in the world cup.
Yes he was the one that said the Earth was round, and first recorded instrument errors in the burmuta triangle. He also was the first recorded visit to America.
The Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan and the Spanish fleet, proved the world was round. They were the first to circumnavigate around the world and complete the first voyage around the world.
They were knocked out in the first round.
will butson
If the astronomer Galileo was born before vascodagama, then he is the first one who would have said it. Maybe vascodagama sailed, but I believe it is Galileo
Well Answer shouldn't be searched online, it should be direct from heart and can be anything, well if my girlfriend would have said so, i would have said to her that " i haven't seen the world yet, will you go with me to actually see if its really round or just our imagination"
Magellan was the first person to sail all the way around the world!
Francis Drake
Ferdinand magellan