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The ancient Greeks knew the earth was round.

The ancient Greeks knew the earth was round. It all started as a philosophical concept developed by the Greeks around the 6th century BC. It wasn’t until the 3rd century BC when Hellenistic astronomy came to the conclusion that the earth was in fact physically spherical.  At first, there was no real explanation of how the Greeks came up with this conclusion, other than their observation on the change of the stars when they traveled.  Pythagoras and Plato taught their students that the world was round but they had no...

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Published By: OMGFacts - Tuesday, 29 May, 2012