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Old 12th July 2017, 01:17 PM   #79
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Originally Posted by LSSBB View Post
Better yet, the very path the sun takes on the sky doesn't match their theory, most obviously at equinox. At equinox, the sun travels in a straight line at the equator, and in opposite arcs to the north and south.
Which brings up an interesting point that I've mentioned to many a flat earth cultist. The ancient astronomers who came up with the cosmology common to the civilizations of Babylon, Sumer, Egypt etcetera, were far smarter than Rowbotham and his sycophants. They couldn't travel far or fast enough to realize that the earth is spherical, but they got the general idea of the motion of the celestial objects right. This is because they actually made careful geometric observations, unlike the modern flaties. The only reason that Rowbotham had to invent his preposterous model of the sun and moon revolving on a plane parallel to and above the flat earth is because by the 19th century, it was plainly known to anyone with even a rudimentary education that the sun was not shining everywhere on earth at the same time, nor was it night everywhere at the same time. The geometry of that model is impossible to reconcile with the way we actually see the cosmos move around us, but then so is the ancient model with the sun revolving on a plane intersecting a flat plane earth. The zetetic nuts simply had to chose which major problem they wanted to ignore.
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