No, the statement that the Lilliputians believed the Earth was round is not true. In Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," the Lilliputians are fictional characters who are not portrayed as having a specific belief about the shape of the Earth.
In Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," the Lilliputians are fictional characters who did not have a clear belief about the shape of the Earth. The novel does not specifically address this aspect of their beliefs.
Christopher Columbus is the explorer who believed the earth was round and set sail to find a westward route to Asia, under the assumption that the Earth's circumference was smaller than commonly believed.
He thought it was round.
The Greek scientist who is credited with demonstrating that the Earth is round was Pythagoras. He believed that the Earth was a sphere based on observations of the shapes of celestial bodies like the moon during lunar eclipses.
no the world has always been round. but it was believed that the earth was flat because pioneers never traveled far enough to know then some one was smart enough to realize the earth was round.
It was well known by colonial times that the earth was spherical.
You can ask them here so long as you phrase them as a question. For example, you don't ask "The earth is round." and expect to get an answer because that is a statement not a question. You would ask "Is the earth round?" to get an answer.
umm: "The Earth is round"? ------------------------------------------------ The Earth is not round - it is an oblate spheroid. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A (slightly) oblate spheroid seems pretty "round" to me.
He didn't. It was well-known at the time of Columbus that the earth is round.
Pythagoras stated the earth was round
Yes, it is a fact that the Earth is round.
No one believed that the earth was flat in the 1600 it was a well know fact that the world was round. This myth that people used to believe that the world was flat didn't exsist before 1870-1920. The myth probably came to existance because it was way more intriguing that Colombus in a world where everyone thought was flat was the only one who believed it was round.