What celestial phenomenon proves the sphericity of the Earth? What scientist and when did he first point this out?
| September 21, 2020 | Education
Partial phases of a lunar eclipse. An earthly shadow always has the shape of a circle. A shadow in the form of a circle occurs only from a sphere. For the first time Aristotle drew attention to this fact (IV century BC).
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