The Greek philosophers discovered the earth was spherical in the 6th century BC. Parmenides also discovered this in the 5th century BC. In 330 BC Aristotle put for the position based on physical theory and observational evidence.
The first person to model the earth as a sphere was Aristotle. He also believed that it was located at the center of the universe.
Pythagoras
Pythagoras
Galileo was the first astronomer to describe surface features of the moon.
Coppernicus
Since the Earth is a sphere, there is no beginning and end, since a sphere is a never-ending shape. Therefore there is no last or first country.
It is believed that Nicolaus Copernicus first proposed the heliocentric theory.
He was not the first astronomer; there were plenty before him going back to the Babylonians at least. Galileo, however, was the first to use a telescope.
Galileo was the first astronomer to describe surface features of the moon.
The Greeks were the first to determine that the earth was a sphere and they modeled their maps that way.
The troposphere, I do believe.
Man believed Earth to be flat and the stars to be a covering or blanket for Earth.An eclipse was considered to be an omen of either a wonderful event or a terrible disaster.Greek philosopher Pythagoras is accredited as being the first to describe Earth as a sphere during the fifth century BC.
The astronomer, Oglivy
PYTHAGOREANS
pathagoras
Coppernicus
chistopher coulmbus
Since the Earth is a sphere, there is no beginning and end, since a sphere is a never-ending shape. Therefore there is no last or first country.
Copernicus was a polish astronomer that first formed the theory that the Earth was at the center of the universe.
Aristarchus of Samos, a Greek mathematician and astronomer, was the first person (that we know of) to propose the idea that the Earth circles the Sun