Posted by greenman✏️ Valued Poster
on August 18, 2026, 11:37 am, in reply to "Perfectly true. However, the researchers are just saying that such a long trip would have required p"
Educated people had known that it was spherical since Greco-Roman times. Eratosthenes calculated - pretty accurately - the circumference the Earth in the 3rd century BCE.
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