The Earth is round

Dive into the heart of Antiquity and discover how scholars revealed that the Earth is spherical.

Imagined by the Space Department and the Time and Space Laboratory teams at the Paris Observatory, this immersive experience places you in the shoes of great thinkers of ancient times and invites you to experiment for yourself.

Explore three interactive workshops and encounter, through thought, great minds such as Eratosthenes, Aristotle, and Pliny the Elder. Grasp their insights, retrace their methods, and experience the power of simple observations that transformed our understanding of the world.

Through experimentation, rediscover how observation and reasoning enabled scholars to comprehend the world, long before modern technologies.