Flat Earth Theory - How Was It Debunked 2,000 Years Ago?

A history documentary on the Flat Earth Theory and how Flat Earthers were debunked over 2,000 years ago. Go to https://squarespace.com/Invicta to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase.

The video takes a look at what people in the past thought about the shape of the earth. Here is an outline of the major topics:

1. Early Flat Earth Models - What did people from our earliest civilizations like the Sumerians and Babylonians think of the shape of the earth and of cosmology.
2. Simple Observations of a Round Earth - An overview of common ways that common people could clue in to the real shape of the earth.
3. Greeks and a Round Earth - The successions of ancient Greek philosophers who debunked the flat earth model and built up consensus around the round earth view.
4. Details of a Round Earth - The brilliant experiment of Eratosthenes which used the angles of shadows to calculate the circumference of the earth.
5. The Round Earth Prevails - How the belief of the Round Earth came to be the commonly accepted view of the world 2000 years ago.
Credits
Research: Invicta
Script: Invicta
Art: Invicta
Editing: Invicta
Music: 8th Mode Music, Total War: Rome II OST

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