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The idea that people in medieval times believed in a flat Earth is a myth that was invented in the 1800s. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Ear
by btilly 1y ago
The idea that people in medieval times believed in a flat Earth is a myth that was invented in the 1800s. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth for more.
- westurner 1y agoGalileo Galilei: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei : > Galileo's championing of Copernican heliocentrism was met with opposition ... By the most published majority, whose texts would've been used to train science LLMs at the time back then.
- btilly 1y agoAnd that most published majority believed in the Ptolemaic model. Which as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model#Ptolemaic_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_model#Ptolemaic_mod... says: > Ptolemy argued that the Earth was a sphere in the center of the universe... Note. Spherical Earth. Not flat.
- westurner 1y agoBut could the Greeks sail? Did ancient (Eastern?) Jacob's Staff surveying and navigation methods account for the curvature of the earth? https://www.google.com/search?q=Did%20ancient%20(Eastern%3F)%20Jacob's%20Staff%20surveying%20and%20navigation%20methods%20account%20for%20the%20curvature%20of%20the%20earth%3F https://www.google.com/search?q=Did%20ancient%20(Eastern%3F)... : - History of geodesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_geodesy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_geodesy FWIU Egyptian sails are Phoenician in origin.