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Who Discovered The Earth is Round?

Ethan Siegel
Starts With A Bang!
9 min readFeb 10, 2014

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“The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.”

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Image credit: The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck, using a pinhole camera.
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Image credit: E. H. Bunbury.
Image credit: U.S. Military, White Sands Naval Base, New Mexico.

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Starts With A Bang!
Starts With A Bang!

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The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it.

Ethan Siegel
Ethan Siegel

Written by Ethan Siegel

The Universe is: Expanding, cooling, and dark. It starts with a bang! #Cosmology Science writer, astrophysicist, science communicator & NASA columnist.

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