Many years later, the Transglobe Expedition traversed the globe vertically for a 100,000-mile circumpolar navigation. Over a period of 3 years from August 1519 to September 1522, Magellan and his crew crossed the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans departing from and returning to Seville, Spain. Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, financed by the Spanish Crown, began the first successful circumnavigation of the globe. This article looks at some of the many reasons why science has definitively proven the earth is a sphere.
From Hellenistic astronomy in the 3rd century BCE to circumnavigation in the 16th century CE, multiple scientific disciplines have put forth arguments proving the earth is round.
The concept of a spherical earth dates back to the 6th century BCE. How Do We Know That the World is Round? The world is round.
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