who discovered the earth is round not flat
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Who discovered that the Earth was round? Among the ancient Greeks, Homer thought the world to be flat. In contrast, Pythagoras postulated that the earth was round. A century later, Aristotle sided with the theory of the roundness of the earth.
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- on Cape Canaveral. Today it is generally known that the Earth is a sphere, or very close to one (its equator bulges out a bit because of the Earth's rotation). Christopher Columbus too knew that the Earth was round, when he proposed to reach India by sailing west from Spain, he too knew that the Earth was round.
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(8) The Round Earth and Christopher Columbus On a round globe, however, it should also be possible to reach India by sailing west, and this Columbus proposed to do (he wasn't the first one to suggest this--see below). Sometimes the claim is made that those who opposed Columbus thought the Earth was flat, but that wasn't the case at all.
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Kyrie Irving still believes Earth is flat and he controls dreams If he wants to think Earth is flat, go right ahead -- as long as he continues to play basketball and not become head of any space agencies. My point is if you have certain limitations of understanding of the natural world, stay away from jobs that require that, he told TMZ. Irving seems unperturbed.
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7 DIY experiments you and rapper B.o.B can do to prove Earth is round I ask because an Internet conversation has surfaced among celebrities like former television personality Tila Tequila whereby they state the Earth is flat. On Monday, musician B.o.B took up the mantle on Twitter, spurring a spicy conversation with noted astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
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Flat Earth Motives for advocating a flat over a round earth despite evidence to the contrary vary. (Even typical young-earth creationists who think it's 6000 years old don't go so far as to say that it's not round.). Modern geocentrists make a point of distancing themselves from the flat earth belief.
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Shaq is a flat-Earther too, apparently Retired NBA star and current media personality Shaquille O'Neal is the latest pro basketball player to assert that our definitely globe-shaped planet is, in fact, a flat surface. His proof: when he drives between Florida and California, it's flat to me..
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- By Valerie Strauss October 10, 2011 Follow @valeriestrauss. If you learned in school that Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain in 1492 and crossed the Atlantic Ocean, disproving a common belief in those days that the Earth was flat, then the lesson was wrong.
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Alfred Wegener's Theory of Continental Drift Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist, was the first to begin to work out details to explain this interesting observation. To begin with, the current geologic theory was that the crust was all stationary, and continents were relatively unchanging-they didn't move around.
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Flat Earth Flat Earth (also known as the Flat Earth myth, flat-earthism, and less commonly platygeism) is the belief that the earth — which the vast, vast majority of the population imagine in their heads as this big spherical thing (or oblate spheroidal thing, pedants) is actually flat.
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Flat Earth Society Says Evidence Of Round Planet Part Of Vast Conspiracy Theory Judging by the exhaustive effort flat-earthers have invested in fleshing out the theory on their website, as well as the staunch defenses of their views they offer in media interviews and on Twitter, it would seem that these people genuinely believe the Earth is flat.
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Flat Earth “”Tila Tequila also believes that the planet is flat and one rule of life is to believe the exact opposite of what Tila Tequila believes...I know that Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted a lot of fancy science shit, but it’s the “Duude” that got me. That’s straight guy talk for “Bitch, I can’t!”.
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Historic Dispute : Is Earth the center of the universe? Viewpoint: No, later scientists such as Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo correctly realized that Earth moves around the Sun, not vice versa, and thus cannot be the center of the universe. It is easy in our human nature to believe that we are the center of the universe.
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Who Discovered The Earth Moves Around The Sun? Who Discovered The Earth Moves Around The Sun? Copernicus (1473-1543) was not the first person to claim that the Earth rotates around the Sun. In Western civilization, ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos is generally credited with being the first person to propose a Sun-centred astronomical hypothesis of the universe (heliocentric).
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History of the center of the Universe Flat Earth. The Flammarion engraving (1888) depicts a traveler who arrives at the edge of a flat Earth and sticks his head through the firmament. The flat Earth model is an archaic conception of Earth's shape as a plane or disk. Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat Earth cosmography, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period, and China until the 17th century. That paradigm was also typically held in the aboriginal cultures of the Americas, and the notion of a flat Earth domed by the firmament in the shape of an in
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Who is the father of geography? Eratosthenes was a Greek expert in many disciplines, including astronomy, geography, and mathematics. He is most famous for his calculation of Earth's circumference and for inventing the word geography. Born in Cyrene, in what is now Libya, in 276 B.C., Eratosthenes grew up curious and went to Athens to learn more about the world around him. He studied at Plato's Academy and learned Stoicism from its founder, Zeno.
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Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it.icolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473, the youngest of four children of Nicolaus Copernicus, Sr., a well-to-do merchant who had moved to Torun from Cracow, and Barbara Watzenrode, the daughter of a leading merchant family in Torun.
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- Laid the foundation for modern astronomy. Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun. This is called the heliocentric, or Sun-centered, system.
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- The other well known proof for the roundness of the Earth is often associated with Christopher Columbus who first sailed from Europe to North America in 1492.
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- Galileo discovered that Earth moves. Copernicus discovered that Earth moves around the Sun. In 2000 Tom Chalko, inspired by Desmarquet's report, discovered that the solid nucleus of our planet is in principle a nuclear reactor, it is eccentric, and that our collective ignorance may cause it to overheat and explode.
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When did people discover the EARTH WAS ROUND? Report Abuse. I would say after Columbus did his thing, the people of the civilized world started believing the world was round before that most thought it was flat and you could fall off if you went too far. People did not understand the passage you quoted, it was there but not understood.
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Who first discovered and proved the earth was round, not flat? How was it proven? The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan discovered a route around South America into the Pacific Ocean. Magellan died during the voyage, but one of his captains, Sebastian del Cano, continued sailing west until he reached Europe. This was the first voyage around the world and it proved that the Earth was round.
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10 reasons the Earth is actually flat 10 reasons the Earth is actually flat. A lot of people thought the age of satellites would put paid to Flat Earth theory – the idea that our planet isn’t a sphere, but instead a sort of pancake thing. Those people reckoned without the sheer insanity of the World Wide Web.
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The Earth is flat? What planet is he on? The International Flat Earth Society was formally founded in 1956. Shenton resurrected the society and claimed its presidency last year, ­following years of inaction after the death of former ­president Charles Johnson in 2001, who had some 3,000 registered followers.
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Cosmas, the Tabernacle, and the Flat Earth Darin Hayton. Cosmas, the Tabernacle, and the Flat Earth. The Flat Earth Myth remains a compelling story despite continued efforts by historians to debunk it (I’ve discussed it before). Typically, it combines two fables: first, people in the middle ages believed that the earth was flat; second, Columbus proved that the earth was round.
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- No, Galileo is credited with discovering the telescope. The discovery that the Earth was round was thousands of years earlier. He did agree with Copernicus that the earth revo … lved around the sun. Around 150 AD, Claudius Ptolemy, a Greek geographer, drew maps that showed the earth as curved.