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True or false: The first person to determine the Earth was round was Christopher Columbus.
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True or false: The first person to determine the Earth was round was Christopher Columbus.

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False. 6th century B.C. Pythagoras (a mathematician) claimed this. Then two centuries later Aristotle backed up his claim with astronomical observations.
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