![]() He then did some simple maths and obtained a result: the circumference of our planet is 40,000 kilometers. He then paid a man to go from Alexandria and Syene in order to measure the distance between the two-5,000 stadia apart (~800 km). He also noted that, if the Earth was flat, we will see the same sky as we move around.Įratosthenes started to measure the difference in shadow length in the two cities. Greek philosopher and polymath Aristotle, around 350 B.C., added more value to the theory by observing lunar eclipses-more precisely, how the shadow of the Earth is cast on the Moon. How did he arrive at that conclusion then? He looked at the Moon and deduced that Earth might also be round. He didn’t have any scientific proof to back it up. that Pythagoras-Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism-introduced the idea of a spherical Earth. In fact, the idea that the Earth was round has been around since the time of the ancient Greeks. But it didn’t last as long as you may think. Yes, at one point in time, all of humanity was composed of Flat Earthers. ![]() But this led to the question of the day: Who Discovered the Earth Was Round? ![]() Flat Earthers is a thing I just can understand myself. I was on YouTube the other day and the algorithm recommended to me a video about someone trying to understand how people can still think that the Earth is flat. ![]()
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