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Who Discovered The Earth is Round?

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« on: September 24, 2011, 11:39:25 pm »



And the answer he got was one-fiftieth of a circle, or 7.2 degrees. But at this time, in Syene, the angle the Sun was making with an identical vertical stick was zero degrees! What could be causing this? In perhaps a stroke of genius, Eratosthenes realized that the Sun's rays could all be parallel, and that the Earth could be curved!
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