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The Story of the Earth

The whole round Earth seen from far away: blue oceans, white swirls of cloud and the brown and green of North America.
The whole sunlit Earth, photographed by NASA's DSCOVR spacecraft in July 2015.

Image: NASA, the whole Earth photographed by the EPIC camera on the DSCOVR spacecraft (6 July 2015) · Public domain

A Knaph story

The Story of the Earth

How people learned that the ground under their feet is a spinning ball

c. 600 BCE – today

A map on a clay tablet, a shadow on the Moon, a stick in the Egyptian sun, a day lost at sea and a ball swinging in Paris: how people found out the shape, the size and the motion of the Earth.

A Knaph story

The Story of the Earth

How people learned that the ground under their feet is a spinning ball

c. 600 BCE – today

A map on a clay tablet, a shadow on the Moon, a stick in the Egyptian sun, a day lost at sea and a ball swinging in Paris: how people found out the shape, the size and the motion of the Earth.

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