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2024-06-02 09:57:10 UTC - HELPFUL
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People have known the world was round and what it looked like for a very long time. They've known it was round since at least ancient Greece, roughly correct maps of the globe have been known since the 16th century. First globe with map was made in the 1490s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_map#Historical_maps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatrum_Orbis_Terrarum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_geodesy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Arrowsmith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdapfel
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