On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 00:59:05 GMT, wrote:

In sci.astro DrPostman wrote:
wrote:

If the Greeks had done it so long ago, why did
so many people still believe in a flat Earth?


Who said they did (other than Washington Irving, which got reproduced
in millions of textbooks for a century and a half)? We have zero
evidence that people of that time believed that the Earth was flat.
This lack of evidence disturbs people like Dave Tholan, but that's his
problem.

Do you understand my point? The argument Columbus made was over the
circumference. The Inquisition, and rightly so, questioned his
calculations. Read up on it all here and you might understand better.
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Scolumb.htm

Fascinating! Thanks for the teaching!

Plus, I never knew our American Indians were called 'Indians'
because Christopher Columbus thought he had landed on India!

Indian...feather or dot?


We're all here to learn from each other. At least most of us are.



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