Sfēriskās Zemes uzskats nonāca pretrunā ar iepriekš vadošoPlakanās Zemes konceptu. SenāsDivupes mitoloģijā Zeme tika attēlota kā plakans disks, kas peld okeānā un ko aptver sfēriskas debesis,[8] un vadoties pēc šī uzskata arī tika veidotas senākās Zemes kartes.
18. gadsimtā tika atklāts, ka precīza Zemes forma ir tuvākaelipsei (Mopertuī).
↑Direct adoption of the Greek concept by Islam: Ragep, F. Jamil: "Astronomy", in: Krämer, Gudrun (ed.) et al.:Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Brill 2010, without page numbers
↑Direct adoption by India:D. Pingree: "History of Mathematical Astronomy in India",Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. 15 (1978), pp. 533−633 (554f.); Glick, Thomas F., Livesey, Steven John, Wallis, Faith (eds.): "Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia", Routledge, New York 2005,ISBN 0-415-96930-1, p. 463
↑Adoption by China via European science: Jean-Claude Martzloff, “Space and Time in Chinese Texts of Astronomy and of Mathematical Astronomy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”,Chinese Science 11 (1993-94): 66–92 (69) and Christopher Cullen, "A Chinese Eratosthenes of the Flat Earth: A Study of a Fragment of Cosmology in Huai Nan tzu 淮 南 子",Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1 (1976), pp. 106–127 (107)
↑Ilustrētā pasaules vēsture, novembris 2011. Magelāns palika pusceļā.
↑Pigafetta, Antonio (1906). Magellan's Voyage around the World. Arthur A. Clark.[1]
