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**SkHukV3N** · 10-18-2009, 06:00 PM

and also because at those times it was difficult to prove that the earth was round.

People have known the Earth to be round since the time of the ancient Greeks, and possibly earlier. Earatosthenes calculated the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy about 200 years BC.

10-18-2009, 06:00 PM	#35
SkHukV3N Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 455 Senior Member	and also because at those times it was difficult to prove that the earth was round. People have known the Earth to be round since the time of the ancient Greeks, and possibly earlier. Earatosthenes calculated the Earth's circumference with remarkable accuracy about 200 years BC.
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