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For the longest time, everyone thought that the earth was flat as well until this heretic said, nope it is flat. Challenging group think and being skeptical is
by SEJeff 12y ago
For the longest time, everyone thought that the earth was flat as well until this heretic said, nope it is flat.
Challenging group think and being skeptical is part of being a proper scientist. Perhaps they end up learning something entirely new from all of this.
- knodi123 12y agoInteresting side note, it wasn't thought to be flat for as long as most people think. The roundness of earth is a pretty ancient piece of knowledge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
- lotsofmangos 12y agoGo read up on Eratosthenes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
- teraflop 12y agoWhich "heretic" would you be referring to? Pythagoras? He was persecuted, but not for believing in a spherical earth.
- bjourne 12y agoThe heretic, Galileo Galilei, claimed that the earth revolved around the sun instead of the sun revolving around the earth. That the earth is (almost) spherical was known since antiquity.
- danielweber 12y agoI thought his name was Copernicus.
- btilly 12y agoCopernicus came up with the theory. Galileo became a heretic for how he popularized it.