When did we discover the earth was round? What year?
2006-12-12 18:25:12 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the earth is ROUND!!!!???!!!!!! holy crap!!!!!!!
2006-12-12 18:29:47 · answer #1 · answered by RZA 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Aristotle discovered that the earth was round. He lived around 350bc. Those who say that Columbus discovered that the earth was round are wrong. Everyone in Columbus's time knew that the earth was round. Columbus had no intentions of proving that it was round. The only reason why we thought it was Columbus was because Washington Irving who first wrote the biography of Columbus falsely stated that it was Columbus who discovered that the earth is round.
2006-12-12 18:32:53 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aristotle was among the first to believe that the Earth was round, which he observed in Lunar eclipses. Since he lived between 384-322 BC, and studied under Plato between 354-348 BC, we can figure it was probably between 354 and 322 BC. Since none of us were around back then, and it's unclear if any precise records were kept at that time, you could always just pick a year in that range.
Sorry I couldn't help too much, but I may have narrowed it down a bit for ya.
2006-12-12 18:36:37 · answer #3 · answered by wood_vulture 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh wow no you have destroyed my faith as an Atheist. The Earth is round wow are you sure? you're kidding? I have only heard a thousand time the Bible says the Earth is round. The only problem, they thought it was round like a disk. Every one in Columbus times did not know the Earth was round. Everyone did not agree with Aristotle until; after Columbus proved it round. Only the well educated such as Columbus knew it was round. The uneducated still believed the Earth was flat. There are still ignorant people today who believe the Earth is flat. Just like there are people who don't believe Americans have walked on the moon. lol. xx
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2006-12-12 18:34:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is strong evidence to support that many civilizations knew that the earth was round as early as 300 B.C. The Chinese knew that the Earth was round and were able to calculate latitude and longitude. The Egyptians knew the earth was round as early as 100 B.C. and had calculated the circumference of the earth accurately to within 1% margin of error. Western Civilization didn't accept the world was round until that interesting moment in 1492 when they realized that there was were two more continents on the planet between them and Asia.
I will ring your doorbell and run away!!!
2006-12-12 18:29:15 · answer #5 · answered by Satan Lord of Flames 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No specific year, but scientist always had an inkling that it was round, just that it was only proven after Galileo invented the telescope. That, however, only proved that other planets were round, and there was still the off-chance that somehow our planet was the only flat one in the universe. Irrefutable evidence was only produced when we took satellite pictures a few decades ago.
2006-12-12 18:30:42 · answer #6 · answered by =_= 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1492
2006-12-12 19:52:07 · answer #7 · answered by Sicily 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1492
2006-12-12 18:28:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1462
2006-12-12 18:27:50 · answer #9 · answered by Da Vinci Code Revolution 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry, don't know. but i do know non-British/Spanish/French cultures believed the Earth was round hundreds or thousands of years before they did... mainly by observing the moon, sun, stars, planets and figuring Earth was similar in shape.
2006-12-12 18:30:46 · answer #10 · answered by Mustafa 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1968, when Apollo 8 photographed the earth from space. That was the only real proof.
2006-12-12 18:28:03 · answer #11 · answered by weary0918 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋