History of the knowledge of earth being a sphere

495 BC Pythagoras
320 BC Aristarchus of Samos
- See Archimedes, The Sand Reckoner
322 BC Aristotle
300 BC Euclid
- Euclid’s Phaenomena: A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Treatise in Spherical Astronomy
- https://bookstore.ams.org/view?ProductCode=HMATH/29
- ISBN: 978-0-8218-4072-6
212 BC Archimedes
- The Sand Reckoner
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070811235335/http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/navigation/ideas/reckoner.shtml
194 BC Eratosthenes
79 AD Pliny the Elder
160 AD Ptolemy
430 AD Augustine of Hippo
- https://www.worldhistory.org/article/91/st-augustine-from-the-literal-meaning-of-genesis/
1050 AD Al-Biruni
1492 AD Martin Behaim made a globe of the earth, the “Erdapfel“
1543 AD Nicholas Copernicus
1590 AD Giordano Bruno
1610 AD Galileo Galilei
- Sidereus Nuncius – Starry Messenger
- https://archive.org/details/siderealmessenge80gali
1609 AD Johannes Kepler
1896 AD Iranian Nasseridin Shah commissioned a globe made of precious gems
- https://www.iranchamber.com/museum/royal_jewels/national_iranian_jewels02.php
Christiaan Huygens
Isaac Newton
Friedrich Bessel