Spherical Earth

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.

Svenska: Den här kategorin innehåller historiska och övriga lärorika bilder som förklarar jordens sfäriska form.

Medieval images

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  Spherical earth with the four seasons (Liber Divinorum Operum, 12th century)
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  Two men walk around the spherical earth, one to each direction, and meet on the opposite side (14th century manuscript).
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  Detailed view of the 14th century miniature
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  John Gower prepares to shoot the world, a sphere with compartments representing earth, air, and water (Vox Clamantis, ca. 1400).
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  Detailed view of the earth in Vox Clamantis
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  1550 edition of the medieval astronomy textbook De sphaera mundi ("On the Sphere of the World")

Early globes

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

Maps of the first circumnavigation of the Earth by Magellan and Elcano

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  Portuguese circumnavigation 1519−1522

Curvature of the Earth

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

Earth from space

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  The Earth as seen from the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 (The Blue Marble)

Lunar eclipse

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  Round Earth umbra during the August 2008 lunar eclipse
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  Semicircular shadow of the Earth during the July 2019 lunar eclipse