How can earth be hollow if its just a flat square.
It just has to have large hollow spaces beneath the surface (which it obviously does, in any case), the shape of the entire world is irrelevant to that. Even if the world is a flat square, it obviously isn’t 2 dimensional!
Basic physics here people.
Most people struggle with physics. It isn’t for everyone.
I thought this shit would be common knowledge
Lots of shit is taught as “common knowledge”. Historically (and contemporarily) speaking, “common knowledge” is always wrong and at best incomplete. Thank god truth is not a democracy, eh?
In the original legends of Hercules, he uses a compass to navigate the seas.
Interesting - never heard that before!
The equations that the greeks came up with could work both ways.
The equations that eratosthenes apocryphally used to calculate the circumference of the world assume and depend on the world being spherical (and many other unvalidated assumptions). Misrepresenting it as a “proof” for the shape of the earth is at best disingenuous/erroneous and at worst fraudulent. Eratosthenes never doubted the world was spherical (and hence, of course, never sought to verify/validate it), because he was taught it as fact from childhood just like we were.
Anaxagoras is said to be the first person to explain that solar eclipses are caused by the Moon passing in front of the Sun
Also interesting. Pythagoras usually gets the credit for the explanation of the lunar eclipse, and from it the further deduction that the world is spherical - maybe anaxagoras is the real source.
Of course, why not?
It just has to have large hollow spaces beneath the surface (which it obviously does, in any case), the shape of the entire world is irrelevant to that. Even if the world is a flat square, it obviously isn’t 2 dimensional!
Most people struggle with physics. It isn’t for everyone.
Lots of shit is taught as “common knowledge”. Historically (and contemporarily) speaking, “common knowledge” is always wrong and at best incomplete. Thank god truth is not a democracy, eh?
Interesting - never heard that before!
The equations that eratosthenes apocryphally used to calculate the circumference of the world assume and depend on the world being spherical (and many other unvalidated assumptions). Misrepresenting it as a “proof” for the shape of the earth is at best disingenuous/erroneous and at worst fraudulent. Eratosthenes never doubted the world was spherical (and hence, of course, never sought to verify/validate it), because he was taught it as fact from childhood just like we were.
Also interesting. Pythagoras usually gets the credit for the explanation of the lunar eclipse, and from it the further deduction that the world is spherical - maybe anaxagoras is the real source.