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He also invented made up stuff like the curvature of the earth.
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Eratosthenes invented a whole branch of mathematics. What have you invented? Even your flat earth follies are unoriginal.
Eratosthenes had heard that in Syene, a city south of Alexandria, no vertical shadows were cast at noon on the summer solstice. The sun was directly overhead. He wondered if this were also true in Alexandria.He also invented made up stuff like the curvature of the earth.
Eratosthenes had heard that in Syene, a city south of Alexandria, no vertical shadows were cast at noon on the summer solstice. The sun was directly overhead. He wondered if this were also true in Alexandria.
So, on June 21 he planted a stick directly in the ground and waited to see if a shadow would be cast at noon. It turns out there was one. And it measured about 7 degrees.
Now, if the sun's rays are coming in at the same angle at the same time of day, and a stick in Alexandria is casting a shadow while a stick in Syene is not, it must mean that the Earth's surface is curved. And Eratosthenes probably already knew that.
The idea of a spherical Earth was floated around by Pythagoras around 500 BC and validated by Aristotle a couple centuries later. If the Earth really was a sphere, Eratosthenes could use his observations to estimate the circumference of the entire planet.
Since the difference in shadow length is 7 degrees in Alexandria and Syene, that means the two cities are 7 degrees apart on Earth's 360-degrees surface. Eratosthenes hired a man to pace the distance between the two cities and learned they were 5,000 stadia apart, which is about 800 kilometres.
He could then use simple proportions to find the Earth's circumference — 7.2 degrees is 1/50 of 360 degrees, so 800 times 50 equals 40,000 kilometers. And just like that, a man 2200 years ago found the circumference of our entire planet with just a stick and his brain.
How the ancient Greeks proved Earth was round over 2,000 years ago
An Ancient Greek mathematician calculated the Earth's circumference without ever leaving homewww.independent.co.uk
What a beautiful story of the human spirit. Much better than your boring and inconsistent stories about unrealistic conspiracies.
Well, a stick, shadows and the distance between two places. But its genius how little is needed for it, right?Don't make me laugh, found out all this from just using a stick
On the other hand, your overcomplicated theories about NASA guarding Antarctica with gates for ships to trade with an unknown race behind the wall... primitively stupid.
How can you say it is made up when you, yourself, believe that the earth is a circle - albeit a flat circle - and have previously posted a YouTube clip showing the curvature of the earth?He also invented made up stuff like the curvature of the earth.
You didn't answer the post where I wrote about Rev 13; about how Christians might not be on earth to receive the mark of the beast and how a vaccination given in the arm is not the mark of the beast on the forehead or right hand.I have.
Er no.They may be stupid but this theory is only alleged, but there are some very high iced walls that surround the earth that God has used for boundaries. Read Job 38:8.
How can you say it is made up when you, yourself, believe that the earth is a circle - albeit a flat circle - and have previously posted a YouTube clip showing the curvature of the earth?
And most of your other answers, aren't really answers with scientific explanation, references etc - just a YouTube video with the words "I am right."
But you yourself say that the earth is a flat disk; a circle. Not a square with 4 corners as the Bible says.If I remember right, I also said that they were using a fish eyed lens. This is something that NASA are very fond of using to create a curve when there is none.
1 Job 38 is poetry. Snow isn't literally held in storehouses. The sea did not burst forth from some enormous, cosmic womb, neither did God make a door and bars to keep it in place. Ice didn't come from a womb either.
Then again, as you need to ask if Australian people are upside down, maybe you don't understand this.
2. Job 38:8 is about the sea bursting forth from doors; it doesn't mention "walls of ice around the earth".
But you yourself say that the earth is a flat disk; a circle. Not a square with 4 corners as the Bible says.
So it is curved.
And as if you know more than Nasa.
I can't argue scientifically because I'm not a scientist - but I don't need to.Noe of yours are either.
I didn't say ALL of Job was poetry; I said chapter 38 is.Sorry I don't look at Job as poetry, I take the story of Job literally.
No, you don't.You have to learn to put two & two together by cross references certain passages in the Bible.
Yes, it's easy to say things when you have no evidence and can't prove it.The earth is a level disc shaped plane & not a plane-t.
NASA just lies & lies & lies, full of it.
YOU say the earth is flat - prove it.
No, you don't.
You have to learn to read the Bible in context so as to find out what its authors were saying.
But many, many others can - scientists, astronauts, astronomers etc etc.I can't just as you can't prove it's a ball.
I didn't say that I don't cross reference passages - yet again, not reading what I said.So you never cross reference passages in the Bible, well that does surprise me.
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