Greek scholar Eratosthenes (c. 240 BCE) calculated the Earth’s circumference using shadow angles at Syene and Alexandria, after Aristotle had argued for a spherical Earth from the Earth’s round shadow on the Moon.
In India, Aryabhata (499 CE) described a spherical, rotating Earth and calculated its size in his book Aryabhatiya
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