Showing posts with label Carl Sagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carl Sagan. Show all posts

Friday, 8 September 2017

Carl Sagan - How We Know The Earth Is Round


The legendary Carl Sagan brilliantly demonstrates how Eratosthenes proved a spherical Earth. Hard to believe that some people still deny this 2200 years later.

Friday, 29 January 2016

Carl Sagan - Globular earth deduced by Eratosthenes


A most simple deduction made around 200 bc by the Astronomer Eratosthenes. A Globular spheroid is our home