BH
Veteran Member
Hi.
I know the Greeks and Egyptians were the first to mathematically prove the Earth was round, even coming very close to determining its size.
Do any of you here know the history about the discovery and what objections were brought against what ever proofs were given for a round Earth?
If you do please let me know or give me some leads. The reason I ask is that it is possible some of the objections could have been very rational for the time but nevertheless were wrong. I could use them as illustrations of why you might could make a rational argument against a position but still be wrong when more information or facts are able to be discovered or shown to exist and apply this to some of the apologetic arguments used by the Christians.
I know the Greeks and Egyptians were the first to mathematically prove the Earth was round, even coming very close to determining its size.
Do any of you here know the history about the discovery and what objections were brought against what ever proofs were given for a round Earth?
If you do please let me know or give me some leads. The reason I ask is that it is possible some of the objections could have been very rational for the time but nevertheless were wrong. I could use them as illustrations of why you might could make a rational argument against a position but still be wrong when more information or facts are able to be discovered or shown to exist and apply this to some of the apologetic arguments used by the Christians.
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