How Muslims believed earth was spherical long before anybody mentions it.

[JuliaL]

I wasn't discussing the circumference of earth, or the greek philosophy of viewing earth as "a coin" with ending borders ; mostly referred to as "the end of the world". It's about earth being a sphere ; a ball, is so different than assuming the obvious observation that earth is round.

What an odd argument, that everyone (ancients included) recognize that the earth is round, but nobody until Mohammed specifically connected round to spherical?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of...stic_world

The Indian mathematician Aryabhata (AD 476 - 550) was a pioneer of mathematical astronomy. He describes the earth as being spherical and that it rotates on its axis, among other things in his work Āryabhaṭīya.

http://Muhammad (Arabic: محمد‎; c. 570 – 8 June 632[3])

Muhammad (Arabic: محمد‎; c. 570 – 8 June 632[3])

So a guy who died 20 years before big Mo was born wrote about the earth being spherical, yet a book that Mo dictated, (presumably during his lifetime) later transcribed, which (with some artful choices of translation) can be sort of assumed to say that the earth was a ball (if you squint?)

There are probably people in my own city who don't know that the earth is a sphere, and probably always have been. So what? The scholars who publish first (e.g. Aryabhata vs Mohammed) get the glory.