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.
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) -
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")
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The Erdapfel, the oldest surviving terrestial globe (1492/93)
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Portuguese circumnavigation 1519−1522
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When a ship is at the horizon, its lower part is invisible due to Earth's curvature
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The Earth as seen from the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 (The Blue Marble)
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Round Earth umbra during the August 2008 lunar eclipse -
Semicircular shadow of the Earth during the July 2019 lunar eclipse
