None of these people took the reading. The record of each shows the shape.
Bernard Moitessier (1925 to 1994)
In 1969 the French sailor Bernard Moitessier, the likely winner of the fastest-voyage prize in the Golden Globe, a solo nonstop race around the world, turned away from the finish in England and sailed on alone to Tahiti, arriving on 21 June. Leaving a prize within reach to keep sailing alone shows the shape from outside.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Vivian Maier (1926 to 2009)
Vivian Maier, a nanny near Chicago for about forty years, left more than 100,000 negatives, some from a 1959 trip through Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and never showed her photographs to anyone. A demanding craft practiced for decades, with rolls of film piling up undeveloped and no viewer, shows the shape from outside.
Sources: vivianmaier.com, en.wikipedia.org