We have been told in school that it was Christopher Columbus the person who found out that the Earth is a sphere and set out on a journey to prove it.
It is just one of the many “little” lies that have been told in history classes today.
But Christopher Columbus did not discover the Earth was spherical. Actually, Columbus was about 2,000 years too late and he greatly underestimated the Earth’s circumference.
So who discovered or proved the Earth is a sphere?
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It is just one of the many “little” lies that have been told in history classes today.
But Christopher Columbus did not discover the Earth was spherical. Actually, Columbus was about 2,000 years too late and he greatly underestimated the Earth’s circumference.
So who discovered or proved the Earth is a sphere?
Pythagoras was one of the originators of the idea, Aristotle provided physical evidence and Eratosthenes determined that the Earth was in fact, round.
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