Poseidon was the greek god of the ocean. He had the ability to to create storms. He was also the god of horses and he held and shook the earth in earthquakes.
Initially all the land of Earth was in one super continent called it Pangaea (meaning "all lands" in Greek) It broke into two pieces, the northern one Laurasia and the southern one Gondwanaland.
Leave it to the clever Greek investigator Eratosthenes to bring it all together with a calculation (and a remarkably accurate one!) about the diameter of the earth, and also the inclination of its axis of rotation to its orbital plane about the sun. Amazing! And later in Medieval Europe, the earth was thought to be flat. What happened? You'll want to check facts and read more on the geodesy ("roundness") of the earth, and a link is provided to the Wikipedia article on exactly that subject.
About 1/3 of the earth.
Cain: he murdered Abel. FYI the last murderer on earth will be Superman. He's already published a book, "How to Murder the Earth".
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Galileo theorized the earth circled the sun.
The Greek scientist who concluded that the Earth was round was Pythagoras, around the 6th century BC. His observations of the shape of the Earth influenced later scholars like Aristotle and Eratosthenes.
The Greek scientist who concluded that Earth was round was Pythagoras, around the 6th century BC. He based his conclusion on observations of the stars and their positions in the sky.
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.
Aristotle and Ptolemy - pick one.
No one lifted the earth, but Archimedes (a great scientist and mathematician) claimed that he could do it.
Ptolemy
Milutin Milanković, a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, civil engineer, doctor of technology, university professor, and writer.
nooo its cyanobacteria
A geologist is a scientist that studies the Earth.