He wrote an interesting article (I think it may have been a preface for some other work) in 1946 about how the average person on the street has no idea how they know the earth is round. They know they were told it is, but they have no actual way of knowing, observing, or proving that it is.
He wrote an interesting article (I think it may have been a preface for some other work) in 1946 about how the average person on the street has no idea how they know the earth is round. They know they were told it is, but they have no actual way of knowing, observing, or proving that it is.
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Eratosthenes' method works pretty good.
Eratosthenes' method works pretty good.
Not really, since it was only (allegedly) performed with only two data points, so still would have been consonant with a flat plane earth and closer sun.
Not really, since it was only (allegedly) performed with only two data points, so still would have been consonant with a flat plane earth and closer sun.
Nope.
Nope.
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