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To: shades who wrote (45904)	2/6/2006 2:12:28 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Many thought the world was flat for a long time. Sorry, not a good example. That myth was generated in the late 19th and early 20th century by "scientific" propaganda. Most people knew the earth was a globe throughout history. Even the globes circumference was measured fairly accurately. bede.org.uk ethicalatheist.com The Greeks had tried hard to find out how large the Earth is and managed to calculate many different figures depending on the methods and accuracy of their work. The most famous effort today is that of Eratosthenes, Librarian of Alexandria, who wrote a treatise On the Measurement of the Earth (now lost) in which he gave a figure for the Earth's circumference of 250,000 stadia. Depending on how long a stadia actually was this is the equivalent of about 23,000 miles, creditably close to the true figure of 24,900 miles Eratustosthenes mearured the length of two shadowns at the same time of day 500 miles apart, one point due south of the other. The "flat earth" B/S comes entirely from 19th century "educators" who thought they knew better. The "flat earth" theory was also used as a ruse by so called scientists to discredit the opposition to Darwins theory of evolution. ethicalatheist.com and, from the original link... The doyen of historians of Medieval Science, Edward Grant, covers the issue in his new book, God and Reason in the Middle Ages where he finds all educated people in the Middle Ages were well aware the Earth was a sphere. Perhaps today we can at last dispense with this patronising belief about the Christian Middle Ages.