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How do we know Earth isn't flat? We can prove it. Here are 5 scientific ways of deducing that our home planet is a round globe, not a disc.
Oct 19, 2023 · People who lived 2000 years ago found out through common sense that the earth was round, yet there are some people in the 21 st Century (today!) who doubt the work of countless scientists and mathematicians and still support the flat-earth theory!
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There are still people who believe that only during the last four-hundred years have we known that the Earth is a globe. They were taught this at school when they were told the story of Christopher Columbus.
Dec 21, 2020 · On Aug. 14, 1959, the Explorer 6 satellite took the first photograph of Earth from orbit, but the image lacked detail. On April 1, 1960, the TIROS-1 weather satellite returned the first of its 23,000 television images of the Earth, most of them of sufficient quality for weather forecasting.
Apr 12, 2007 · Planet Earth is not, in fact, perfectly round. This is not to say Earth is flat. Well before Columbus sailed the ocean blue, Aristotle and other ancient Greek scholars proposed that Earth was...
Dec 28, 2017 · The idea of a spherical Earth was floated around by Pythagoras around 500 BC and validated by Aristotle a couple centuries later. If the Earth really was a sphere, Eratosthenes could use his...
Dec 14, 2023 · Humans have known that Earth is round for more than 2,000 years, a spokesperson for NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center said to Reuters in an email.
