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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kentucky, post: 24669266, member: 33176&quot;]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The earliest documented mention of the concept dates from around the 5th century BC, when it appears in the writings of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_philosophy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_philosophy" rel="nofollow">Greek philosophers</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#cite_note-Dicks-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#cite_note-Dicks-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> In the 3rd century BC, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_geodesy#Hellenic_world" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_geodesy#Hellenic_world" rel="nofollow">Hellenistic astronomy</a> established the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_the_Earth" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_the_Earth" rel="nofollow">roughly spherical shape of Earth</a> as a physical fact and calculated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_circumference" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_circumference" rel="nofollow">Earth&#039;s circumference</a>. This knowledge was gradually adopted throughout the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World" rel="nofollow">Old World</a> during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_antiquity" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_antiquity" rel="nofollow">Late Antiquity</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages" rel="nofollow">Middle Ages</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#cite_note-Kr%C3%BCger:_Roman_and_medieval_continuation-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#cite_note-Kr%C3%BCger:_Roman_and_medieval_continuation-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#cite_note-Encyclopaedia_of_Islam:_Astronomy-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#cite_note-Encyclopaedia_of_Islam:_Astronomy-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#cite_note-Pingree:_Indian_adoption-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#cite_note-Pingree:_Indian_adoption-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#cite_note-Martzloff,_Cullen:_Chinese_adoption-6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth#cite_note-Martzloff,_Cullen:_Chinese_adoption-6" rel="nofollow">[6]</a>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t confuse heliocentrism with the concept of a spherical earth...two different things.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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