To me, it’s: That ancient people thought the Earth was flat.

We have records from around 430BC where Greek philosophers spoke of the Earth being a sphere. In 240BC the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth and was only about 2% out.

  • barf
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    42 years ago

    Where does the distance to the sun enter into this equation?

    • flatearth
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      12 years ago

      Did he make an assumption about the distance of the sun?
      Did he assume parallel rays?