Xref: utzoo talk.religion.newage:1236 alt.flame:900 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ptsfa!ames!hao!boulder!sunybcs!rutgers!rochester!bbn!uwmcsd1!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!len From: len@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Leonard P Levine) Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.flame Subject: Re: The flat earth Keywords: platygaeanism,creationism,astroloy Message-ID: <3838@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 87 17:12:17 GMT References: <9578@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <590@cos.COM> <4084@bellcore.bellcore.com> <17127@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Sender: daemon@uwmcsd1.UUCP Reply-To: len@csd4.milw.wisc.edu.UUCP (Leonard P Levine) Distribution: na Organization: University of WI-Milwaukee Lines: 27 In article <17127@bu-cs.BU.EDU> madd@buita.UUCP (Jim Frost) writes: >About the flat earth stuff: It's easy to show the earth is spherical >and also to find it's diameter. All you have to do is take the angle >of the sun to the earth in relation to two lines (preferably >perpendicular). Like, angle of sun to earth along longitudinal and >latitudinal lines (ie north-south and east-west). > >Do this at three points widely separated (same hemisphere) at the same >time on the same day and look at the data you get. The discrepancies >in the data will give you the angles necessary to project to the >center of the earth. The geometry and math is simple so it is left as >an excercise to the reader. Sorry, Jim, although I am not a flat earther, the same data can be interpreted by assuming a flat earth, and locating the sun close to the earth. It is easier to show with a figure. The classical experiment was done by noting that on a given day the sun shone to the bottom of a well at noon in one city (Alexandria?) and did not do so in another (Cairo?). Draw a flat earth, two wells, the sun near the earth and you will see that the same picture develops (no pun) as with a round earth and the sun far away. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- O fillers please stop. In 1932 the state of Nebraska produced 1 1/2 pounds of dry edible beans for every man, woman and child in the United States. Len