How the Ancient Greeks Knew That the Earth Is Spherical
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Aristotle
Provided one of the earliest scientific arguments for a spherical Earth. He observed that during a lunar eclipse, when the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon, the shadow cast on the Moon is always circular.
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Pythagoras
his followers proposed that the Earth is spherical based on philosophical and mathematical reasoning.
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Eratosthenes
provided the most impressive quantitative proof of a spherical Earth.
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