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2024-02-25 15:56:55 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 636A0E859E26A709113574A9C8F4BE8745F6A1F6557B3418B4EADBE980F4AA12
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Hellenistic Greeks around 500BCE determined through observation that the Earth is spherical and this was the widely help view by people since that time. This tweet incorrectly states that the heliocentric model is the first spherical Earth model. https://www.loc.gov/collections/finding-our-place-in-the-cosmos-with-carl-sagan/articles-and-essays/modeling-the-cosmos/ancient-greek-astronomy-and-cosmology#:~:text=In%20the%205th%20century%20B.C.,moon%20it%20is%20clearly%20round.
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