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2006-08-10 11:28:28 · 10 answers · asked by Kaya D 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Actually, It is a long story. No particular Scientist or Navigator found that the Earth is not FLAt But Round (sperical, to be more exact).
The whole credit must go to the Greeks. The people knew the Earth was round as far back as 2,500 years ago but have forgotten.
It was 500 years before Christ (BC), the Greeks were the first to THEORIZE about the shape of the earth. Pythagoras & Aristotle had their definite calculations about the earth & the stars taking the earth as Sperical.
It was Claudius Ptolemy (again, a Greek Philosopher, mathematician ) aroung 140 AD produced a map of the earth.
But the Medieval Church rejected the Greek Theory saying that the Earth is FLAT & the heaven was above & the Hell beneath.
If the Earth was FLAT as contended, it must have EDGES.
Then started the Circumnavigation of the Earth byColumbus (1492 A.D), Vasco Da Gama, Megallan (1519).
Who Discovered? None in particular. It as a common knowledge. The Later Navigators just confirmed that the Earth was Spherical in shape.
The answer may be THE GREEKS FIRST!
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2006-08-10 12:00:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the historic Greeks. Pythagoras taught others that it replaced into round, yet his reasoning replaced into no longer in accordance with clinical actuality. He, and others, theory that a sphere replaced into the suited structure and that the gods could have made the earth the suited structure. This replaced into in about 500bc. Then with the help of about three hundred BC, Aristotle used effortless observations to argue that the earth replaced into round. He used the curved structure of the earth's shadow on the moon throughout a lunar eclipse as an get at the same time. He also stated that the actuality you'll discover distinct stars/constellations as you moved south meant that the celebrities were in the back of the horizon created with the help of the round floor of the earth.
2016-11-24 19:10:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christopher Columbus
2006-08-10 11:42:36 · answer #3 · answered by Eric 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christoher Columbus
2006-08-10 20:53:32 · answer #4 · answered by sc 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
just a small addition to the excellent answer above-
Herodotus, in his History, also argues that the world must be round, simply based on the shape of the earth cast on the moon in a lunar eclipse.
2006-08-10 12:17:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Galileo or Columbus. That's about the extent of my history knowledge!
2006-08-10 11:34:03 · answer #6 · answered by wenjowade 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hello!!! Christopher Columbus.
Over and Out.
2006-08-10 11:34:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pythagoras..
2006-08-10 11:51:53 · answer #8 · answered by CPWS 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
galileo
2006-08-10 11:51:37 · answer #9 · answered by Jeff Zhang (J-Z) 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
galileo
2006-08-10 11:34:17 · answer #10 · answered by dianafedez 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋