SSC
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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He hypothesized and scientifically demonstrated the earth had a spherical shape?
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Herodotus
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Aristotle
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Karl Marx
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Eratosthenes
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In Aristotle’s Cosmology, each of these four elements (earth, water, fire and air) had a weight. Earth was the heaviest, water less so, and air and fire the lightest. According to Aristotle the lighter substances moved away from the center of the universe and the heaver elements settled into the center.
Detailed explanation-2: -Isaac Newton first proposed that Earth was not perfectly round. Instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid-a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.
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