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    5. Who discovered that the earth is not flat and what year was it?
    Who discovered that the earth is not flat and what year was it?

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      Yajnavalkya (c. 9th–8th century BCE) recognized that the Earth is spherical in his astronomical text Shatapatha Brahmana. This is also recognized in another Vedic Sanskrit text Aitareya Brahmana composed around the same time, and in a later Sanskrit commentary Vishnu Purana.

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        I fold! *~*

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