I know. Isn't that just the darndest thing.
There are wonderful pictures from space of earth. In them you can see it is round. The Ancient Greeks knew it was round.
Because everyone from the ancient Greeks onwards knew that the Earth is round.
He didn't. This is a fable. The ancient Greeks knew it was round.
People have known the earth is round for over 2,000 years and did experiments. very is likely the Egyptians and Moses thought it was round. most people like flat earthers dont know people knew the earth was round before Columbus.
The Ancient Greeks knew the world 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 didn't. It was well-known at the time of Columbus that the earth is round.
There are a few things about Islamic scholar. The Islamic scholar knew that the earth was round and they developed some math that is still used today.
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No one. The explorers all ready knew the earth was round well before they began exploring. This is a fable that they didn't know.
The round shape of the Earth was discovered by the ancient Greeks around 500 B.C. The first proposal about the Earth's shape was from Pythagoras.
Galileo did not prove that Earth was not flat (It had already been agreed that it was round). Galileo invented the telescope and used it to prove that there were objects which did not orbit the Earth, supporting Copernicus' Heliocentric model for the universe. The Earth was known to be round by the ancient Greeks, but I do not who it found out initially (sorry).