Yes, different cultures, especially earl on, have believed this. However, tt is fictitious that Columbus went on his voyages to find out what the shape of the earth was, or that this was the prevailing thought at the time..
Yes, it is. Satellite imaging will negate the hypothesis and prove that Earth is round, not flat.
Since the determination of the fact that Earth is spherical as opposed to flat, all scientists (after a short lag period) have accepted that it is so.
It is a common knowledge that the world is round. I never read or heard anybody teach that the world is flat. A very very long time ago, the world once was thought to be flat. The horizon that we see now, people use to think that when you got to that point you would fall off the edge of the world. Not until boats and navigation came into fruition, the then thought "brave" explorers, set out to discover the edge of the world. It wasnt until they started sailing familiar waters that the theory of a round world came to be. Interesting huh?
The ancient Greeks knew (most likely discovered too) the earth was not flat contrary to the popular myth that Columbus thought he would fall of the Earth if he sailed to far West. _______________________ We have no way of knowing which ancient civilizations realized that the Earth was spherical, but it was likely the Phoenicians, those sea-faring traders who roamed the Mediterranean and on to England and the Norse lands.
A distortion on a map is when you transfer information from a curved suface to a flat suface losing some accuracy. Distortion is a change in shape, size, or position of a place when it's shown on a map. . . . In example . . . Transferring information from a globe to a map
Round. Most people by the time of Columbus did not believe the Earth was flat, despite what some history books will tell you.
He didn't. It was well-known at the time of Columbus that the earth is round.
He thought the earth was flat and it is round
This had been known since the ancient Greeks. It is a fable that people didn't know this. Despite the fact we have seen earth from space there are people who think the earth is flat.
Because the curvature of the earth is so gentle, do to it's size, people couldn't understand how it could be curved as it looks flat.
3000 years ago someone discovered the earth was round and before that they thought it was flat.
Flat earth believers are almost exclusively motivated by religion or by conspiracy theory beliefs.
He didn't. It was well-known at the time of Columbus that the earth is round.
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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.
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.
During ancient times, many people believed the Earth was flat until around the 6th century BC when Greek philosophers like Pythagoras and later Aristotle proposed that the Earth was round.