We have been told in school that it was Christopher Columbus the person who found out that the Earth is round and set out on a journey to prove it.
It is just one of the many “little” lies that have been told in history classes today. But Christopher Columbus did not discover the Earth was round. Actually, Columbus was about 2,000 years too late to prove the Earth was in fact round.
Columbus greatly underestimated the Earth’s circumference.
So who discovered or proved the Earth was round?
Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C.) the father of “Geography,” made the discovery around seventeen hundred years before Columbus. He speculated …read more