Spherical Earth

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Deutsch: Diese Kategorie beinhaltet historische und weitere aufschlußreiche Bilder über die Kugelgestalt der Erde.
English: This category includes historical and other instructive images which inform about the sphericity of the earth.
Español: Esta categoría incluye históricos y otros imagenes instructivos sobre la esfericidad de la Tierra.

Medieval images[edit]

  • Spherical earth with the four seasons (Liber Divinorum Operum, 12th century)

  • Two men walk around the spherical earth, one to each direction, and meet on the opposite side (14th century manuscript).

  • Detailed view of the 14th century miniature

  • John Gower prepares to shoot the world, a sphere with compartments representing earth, air, and water (Vox Clamantis, ca. 1400).

  • Detailed view of the earth in Vox Clamantis

  • 1550 edition of the medieval astronomy textbook De sphaera mundi ("On the Sphere of the World")

Early globes[edit]

  • The Erdapfel, the oldest surviving terrestial globe (1492/93)

Maps of the first circumnavigation of the Earth by Magellan and Elcano[edit]

  • Portuguese circumnavigation 1519−1522

Curvature of the Earth[edit]

  • When a ship is at the horizon, its lower part is invisible due to Earth's curvature

Earth from space[edit]

Lunar eclipse[edit]

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