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Q. Who amongst the following was the first to state that the Earth was spherical? (UPSC Prelims 2001)
Answer: Aristotle
Notes: Aristotle in 340 B.C first stated that the earth was spherical in his book “On the Heaven”.
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, the founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy and Aristotelian tradition. Along with his teacher Plato, he has been called the "Father of Western Philosophy".  
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