July 8, 2020 at 2:22 pm

How the Ancient Greeks Figured Out the Earth wasn’t Flat (and solved the circumference too)

by twistedsifter

 

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago. This clip is an excerpt from episode 1 of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos”.

 

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