Answer to Question #193468 in Regional geography for Emmanuella

Question

Examine the ideas of Greek philosophers on the shape and size of the earth during the
classical times

Answer 1

Early antique philosophers such as Leucippus and Democritus were flat-earth proponents. Anaximander considered the Earth to be cylindrical.

It is believed that Pythagoras (VI century BC) was the first to express and argue the thesis "The earth has the shape of a ball."