Comment by teamonkey
4 hours ago
It’s easy to see that the surface of the earth is a ball - or at least a curved surface - simply by going to the seaside and watching ships dip below the horizon before they fully disappear.
The ancient Greeks proved it was a ball and measured the dimensions of it using mathematics, but the concept of a curved earth was known to seafarers long before that.
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