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  2. Figure of the Earth - Wikipedia

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    The Earth's radius is the distance from Earth's center to its surface, about 6,371 km (3,959 mi). While "radius" normally is a characteristic of perfect spheres, the Earth deviates from spherical by only a third of a percent, sufficiently close to treat it as a sphere in many contexts and justifying the term "the radius of the Earth".

  3. Celestial spheres - Wikipedia

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    He drew the spheres in the conventional order, with the Moon closest to the Earth and the stars highest, but the spheres were concave upwards, centered on God, rather than concave downwards, centered on the Earth. [71] Below this figure Oresme quotes the Psalms that "The heavens declare the Glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork ...

  4. Spherical Earth - Wikipedia

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    Spherical Earth or Earth's curvature refers to the approximation of the figure of the Earth to a sphere. The concept of a spherical Earth gradually displaced earlier beliefs in a flat Earth during classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. The figure of the Earth is more accurately described as an ellipsoid, which was realized in the early modern ...

  5. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium - Wikipedia

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    The world (heavens) is spherical, as is the Earth, and the land and water make a single globe. The celestial bodies, including the Earth, have regular circular and everlasting movements. The Earth rotates on its axis and around the Sun. [5] Answers to why the ancients thought the Earth was central. The order of the planets around the Sun and ...

  6. Outline of Earth - Wikipedia

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    Earth's location in the Universe. Universe – all of time and space and its contents.. Observable universe – spherical region of the Universe comprising all matter that may be observed from Earth at the present time, because light and other signals from these objects have had time to reach Earth since the beginning of the cosmological expansion.

  7. Empirical evidence for the spherical shape of Earth - Wikipedia

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    On a flat Earth, the aircraft would have travelled along three sides of a square, and arrive at a spot about 10,000 kilometres (6,200 mi) from where it started. But because Earth is spherical, in reality it will have travelled along three sides of a triangle, and arrive back very close to its starting point.

  8. Planet Heroes - Wikipedia

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    Earth Ace Earth Ace Basic Earth Ace come with a Go Kart, the basic figure comes with a skateboard with wings. Mars Digger comes with a Rumble Rover vehicle. The basic version comes with a drill and shield. Jupiter Gustus - The largest Planet Hero can spin 360 degrees. He comes with a pet robot dog. Saturn Rings - Saturn comes with a Ring vehicle.

  9. Anthroposphere - Wikipedia

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    The anthroposphere is the youngest of all the Earth's spheres, yet has made an enormous impact on the Earth and its systems in a very short time. [ 5 ] Some consider the term anthroposphere to be synonymous with the noosphere , though the noosphere is often used to refer specifically to the sphere of rational human thought, or ‘the ...