How come the world is round??
Some Of the thinkers of ancient Greece suggested that our world might be round. But most of our ancestors would state that the earth was a big, flat table top. Some of the crew that sailed with Columbus feared their journey would take them to the edge of the world, where they would fall into a bottomless abyss. It was the bold mariner Magellan who actually proved that the world is a round ball. Columbus and Gallileo were sure that this is so. Same of the ancient Greeks suspected it. But Magellan proved that the world is a globe by sailing a ship all the way around it. After this event, no sensible person could go on insisting that the world is flat. But it was some time before humanity grasped the fact that we live on a round globe. And, Of course, when we find the answer to one question, it always leads to another question. Nowadays, it is natural to wonder why this world of ours is a round ball. And the scientists are fairly sure that they have the answer for us. Our planet, they tel
