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How did Aristotle prove the earth was round?

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He didn't. Gallileo proved the earth was round. Eratosthenes of Cyrene first put the motion forward and even calculated the diameter, but Nicholas Copernicus and Galileo Galilei first put the idea into the public eye.

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