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Does geocentric go hand in hand with flat earth? Because it was pretty common scientific knowledge that earth was round back then. A knowledge that got lost du
by noncoml 2y ago
Does geocentric go hand in hand with flat earth?
Because it was pretty common scientific knowledge that earth was round back then. A knowledge that got lost during the dark ages.
For example: In the third century BCE , Eratosthenes, a Greek librarian in Alexandria , Egypt , determined the earth's circumference to be 40,250 to 45,900 kilometers (25,000 to 28,500 miles) by comparing the Sun's relative position at two different locations on the earth's surface.
- zardo 2y ago> A knowledge that got lost during the dark ages. Any examples of that? I've heard it called a myth.
- atmosx 2y agoGoogle “the Galileo Affair”.
- zardo 2y agoI meant specifically that the Earth is roughly ball shaped.
- ithkuil 2y agoI suggest you read about it again. It was about geo-centric vs helio-centric models. It was not about flat vs globe. The geo-centric model assumed the earth was spherical but it didn't rotate or otherwise move.
- atmosx 2y agoTrue, I didn't follow the thread closely, my bad.
- landswipe 2y agoThis guy Sagan's...