Who found out that the Earth is round?

Question

Who found out that the Earth is round?

Answer 1

Pythagoras (570 B.C.)

Answer 2

Christopher Columbus!

Answer 3

FYI, the earth isnt round.. its in sphere shape

Answer 4

Contrary to what they taught in school MOST Europeans KNEW the World was spherical when Columbus set sail. They KNEW he wasn't going to "fall off" and in fact he was looking for the shortest path to the West Indies. If they thought he would fall off why support it? No one ever found the passage he was looking for. As has been pointed out they knew the World must be "round" since BC. Columbus proved it was "round" as much as Magellan because Europe thought that Columbus made it to the West Indies.

Answer 5

It is Ferdinand Magellan,,,and on the latter part some scientist prove it,,,,...but absoluletly they were wrong because earth' shape is spherical...

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Answer 6

search this, i haven't read it, but it is long, so i must contain some form of information...

Answer 7

Archimedes did ~550 BC(E).  he even calculated (correctly) the circumference (24,000 miles).

Answer 8

its ferdinand magellan

Answer 9

The concept of a spherical Earth dates back to around the 6th century BC in ancient Greek philosophy.

☺Pythagoras

Early Greek philosophers alluded to a spherical earth, though with some ambiguity. This idea influenced Pythagoras (b. 570 BCE), who saw harmony in the universe and sought to explain it. He reasoned that Earth and the other planets must be spheres, since the most harmonious geometric solid form is a sphere. After the fifth century BCE, no Greek writer of repute thought the world was anything but round.

☺Aristotle

Aristotle provided physical and observational arguments supporting the idea of a spherical Earth:

Every portion of the earth tends toward the center until by compression and convergence they form a sphere. (De caelo, 297a9-21)

Travelers going south see southern constellations rise higher above the horizon; and

The shadow of Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse is round. (De caelo, 297b31-298a10)

For more check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_E...

Answer 10

Nobody 'found it out.' It was suggested, but really proven by Galileo and Copernicus the astronomers. They didn't take em seriously, though, for a looong time.

Columbus' voyage as well as Magellan's seemed to support this.

Answer 11

think its galileo.. not sure

Answer 12

there's no answer to this question since the Earth wasn't round in the very beginning till now. nobody couldv'e prove something that is wrong.

Answer 13

I do believe it was Ferdinand Magellan when he managed to sail around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_M...

Answer 14

that is up for debate, however the person who really made it a universial belief was columbus

Answer 15

brayden apted

Answer 16

Aristotle and learned people of his age knew it was a globe.

Eratosthenes of Cyrene was the first person to estimate it's diameter.

Technically, the shape of the earth is called the geoid, but it's close enough to be approximated as an oblate spheroid.

Answer 17

Chrstopher Columbus sailed the seven seas:)

Answer 18

Ptolemy got it right. Magellan proved it. Europeans got on the sea and they found it out..

Answer 19

My homeboy Christopher Columbus.