2007-02-23 11:44:57 · 14 answers · asked by nvr10pts 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Hey, you're not going to pin this one on me! I had nothing to do with it. It was round when I left it, I swear, honest.
2007-02-23 11:48:54 · answer #1 · answered by morningfoxnorth 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Depends on which one you are referring to.
Eratosthenes was the first to actually come up with a reasonable calculation of the circumferance in the 3rd century BC.
Contrary to popular belief, most learned people since then have accepted a spherical earth to be true. Geocentrism was a little later to be discarded.
2007-02-23 19:50:19 · answer #2 · answered by Amanda H 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The original David Koresh(not the Waco whacko)claimed the world was concave!He supposedly proved it using a level,string,and a body of standing water.
2007-02-23 19:55:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
erasthothenes may have calculated the circumference of the earth but it was the voyage of ferdinand magellan who proved that the earth is round. magellan sailed from spain and circumnavigate the glove he was killed in mactan philippines ,his voyage was completed by his remaining crews.
2007-02-23 23:31:44 · answer #4 · answered by darkshadow_1971 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pythagoras
2007-02-23 20:22:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cristopher Columbus.
2007-02-23 19:54:05 · answer #6 · answered by acesfourpal 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Al Gore
2007-02-23 19:51:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Al Gore
2007-02-23 19:49:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
the belief that the world was flat came from the rulers trying to control the masses easier...it gets deeper!
2007-02-23 19:55:49 · answer #9 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Of the Greeks, it was Pythagorus
In Egypt, Eratosthanes
Anyway Buddhagupta did it long before both of them
2007-02-23 20:01:03 · answer #10 · answered by sunil 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋