Explanation:

Aristotle in 340 B.C first stated that the earth was spherical in his book “On the Heaven”. He believed that the earth was at the centre of the universe and that the moon, sun, planets and starts orbited around it.

In 6^th century: Thales of Miletus, gave the size ans shape of earth

In 2^nd century: Ptolemy gave latitudes and longitudes for map making and locating places.

In 1^st century: Strabo gave description of world in 17 volumes

Aryabhatta propounded the theory of heliocentric universe a century before Copernicus

Bhaskaracharya mentioned about gravity on earth 1200 years before Newton.