@bobatl Duude — to be clear: Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn’t mean we all can’t still like your music
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@neiltyson@loomborn the idea that people thought the earth was flat in the dark ages is a falsehood made popular in the 19th century -
@neiltyson@loomborn by John William Draper. No educated person has thought the world was flat since ancient times. -
@neiltyson@loomborn Dr. Jeffrey Burton Russell a medieval historian even wrote a book on it. Worth a read if you get a chance. -
@StanTwinB@neiltyson@loomborn name of the book? -
@TomGoulding_@neiltyson@loomborn it's called "Inventing the Flat Earth". Not only does he debunk the myth, but he shows exactly how... -
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@TomGoulding_@neiltyson the myth worked its way in text books 1880, which it why so many modern people erroneous parrot it today -
Wow they even read my citations
@TomGoulding_@neiltyson@wcs1onlyhttps://twitter.com/wcs1only/status/697031680725553152 …
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I thought it was a matter of noting and comparing the angle of shadows cast by the noon-day Sun in Greece and Egypt.
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It also wasn't really lost in the "dark ages", especially as "the dark ages" aren't really accepted these days by historians. Columbus knew the earth was round, most people believed it was they had for hundreds of years before. The debate was over how big it was.
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GrecoRoman science seems, according to
@RichardCCarrier, to have had a pretty good handle on the shape and size of Earth. How forgotten that was in the Fifteenth Century may be another matter.
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@neiltyson@loomborn@bobatl wow that is completely wrongThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson When you're done playing with the Flat-earthers, how about we discuss the reality of Nibiru? ..Or do I have to be a rapper 1st? -
@BobbieDeep@TakeThatEarth@neiltyson Not the rapping part.
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@neiltyson@loomborn@bobatl No. Please stop repeating historical myths, 5 centuries geocentricism was being debated, not flat earthThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@loomborn@bobatl maybe you should have tried to explain how Polaris is ALWAYS the same place in the sky...astrophysics much? -
@LynkLuv@neiltyson@loomborn@bobatl Simple, it isn't.
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@neiltyson@loomborn Perhaps this would be a good opportunity to plug importance of the history of science, not just cartoon version of past - End of conversation
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