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c. 2nd century BCE

Crates builds a spherical globe

The globe of Crates of Mallus showed Earth could be represented as a sphere rather than a flat map.

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TimelineTimeline of the Shape of the Earth

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Encyclopaedia BritannicaConfidence 90%

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