Who said - geography is the sublime science that sees the reflection of the earth in heaven

Question

Geography is called BhuGol in Hindi which means rounded earth, does it means that Indians knows that earth is sphere in olden days itself?

Answer 1

Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He gave the definition of Geography as "geography is the sublime science that sees the reflection of the earth in heaven"