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The idea that the Earth is round dates back to ancient Greece, with philosophers like Pythagoras (circa 570-495 BCE) and later Plato (circa 427-347 BCE) proposing this concept. However, it was Aristotle (384-322 BCE) who provided observational evidence for a spherical Earth, such as the way ships disappear hull-first over the horizon and the circular shadow cast on the Moon during a lunar eclipse. By the time of the Hellenistic period, the spherical model of the Earth was widely accepted among educated Greeks.

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