On 4/23/17 6:01 pm, Keith Martin via use-livecode wrote:
On 23 Apr 2017, at 15:14, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
Until about 1600 is was a "well-known fact" that the world was flat
Heh. Nice analogy.
Except that even this fact itself isn't true!
Very few facts ultimately turn out to be true; face it, we live in a
shaky universe.
Richmond.
Most educated people much further back than that believed that the
Earth was round. Copernicus (1473-1543) didn't cause consternation
through refuting the flatness of the world, he proposed that the world
revolved around the sun rather than the other way around. And this
wasn't the first time for that concept: Aristarchus of Samos (approx
310-230 BC) originally presented the heliocentric concept, which
relies inherently on the Earth being a sphere. In fact (uh-oh! ;) the
flat-Earth idea has been only patchily believed for far longer than
people generally realise.
Which makes it even more mind-numbingly strange that people think this
today. But then, who in their right mind would look to a basketball
player for scientific information?
:D
k
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