12/25/2023 0 Comments Debate about the earth is round or flat facts on how to win the earth is round![]() ![]() The Catholics weren’t the only religious sect that thought the world was round. ![]() Later, in the 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy also describes the Earth as a sphere. This work, The Reckoning of Time, was copied and distributed to clerics across the Carolingian empire. In Christian medieval Europe, Bede (7th century C.E.), a scholar and a Catholic monk, produced an influential treatise that included a discussion of the spherical nature of the world. He later devised the forerunner of modern-day longitude and latitude, including measuring what we now call latitude from the equator. He observed that as a man approached a far off mountain, it appeared to grow out of the ground – a clear indication of a curved surface. Later, the Roman Ptolemy added to the collected wisdom. ![]() Depending on which stadion measurement he was using, his figure was either just 1% too small or 16% too large many scholars think it likely that he was using the Egyptian stadion (157.5 m), being in Egypt at the time, which would make his estimate about 1% to small… remarkable. Eratosthenes (3rd century B.C., head librarian at the Library of Alexandria) built on their ideas and calculated the circumference of the Earth with remarkable accuracy at about 252,000 stadia. He also noted that during a lunar eclipse, the Earth’s shadow is round. Aristotle (4th century B.C.) agreed and supported the theory with observations such as that the southern constellations rise higher in the sky when a person travels south. Pythagoras (6th century B.C.) is generally credited with having first suggested a round Earth. The ancients were well aware the world was a sphere. Without a doubt, men of the early Renaissance knew the world was round, and that the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria were in no danger of sailing over the edge. In fact, it was so well accepted that daring seafarers had been exploring the Atlantic for hundreds of years before Columbus’ time. Contrary to popular belief, not only did Columbus realize the world was round, so did his contemporaries. ![]() In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue… with a whole lot of maps and information about the very round Earth. ![]()
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