Cleomedes is accurate in some of his remarks on lunar eclipses, especially his conjecture that the shadow on the Moon suggests a spherical Earth.
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The idea of a spherical Earth appeared in Greek philosophy with Pythagoras ( 6th century BC ), although most Hellenistic world from then on.
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BC ) opposed the concept of a spherical Earth, because he considered that an infinite universe had no center towards which heavy bodies would tend.
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Pythagoras of Samos ( c . 560 480 BC ) speculated about the notion of a spherical earth with a central fire at its core.
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An example is a spherical multitouch interface, which is particularly suited to geographic information interfaces, which were previously limited to distorted flat projections of spherical earth data.
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He was a critic of Macrobius, singling out for attack in geography the spherical earth theory of four isolated continents of Crates of Mallus, on theological grounds.
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To calculate the azimuth of the sun or a star given its declination and hour angle at our location, we modify the formula for a spherical earth.
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The Muslim scholars, who held to the spherical Earth theory, used it to calculate the distance and direction from any given point on the earth to Mecca.
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In Ferrari's writings in support of the FES and the Flat Earth, he attributed everything from gender to racial inequality on the globularist and the Spherical Earth model.
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:: : : For a perfectly spherical Earth, which the Earth very nearly is, a graph of surface speed versus latitude in degrees would be a half-sine shape.
