What round? Wow! That's news too me. Now I can resume my travels as I had
paused for conscerns of walking off the edge....
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> >Nearly everything we believe is second hand. For example, less than 500
> >people have seen the Earth from space, yet the majority of
> >people believe it is round (or an oblate sphere for the pedants).
> >
>
> Perhaps. But this is not why we believe it to be round. We know it is a
> sphere from observations we make on the surface. For instance, ships
> sailing away from port disappear from the bottom up (Columbus knew
> that). The main evidence comes from the fact that the angle of elevation
> of astronomical bodies sighted at the same time in different places
> varies in a way that can only be explained if we are on the surface of a
> sphere.
>
> In any case, billions of people have seen at first-hand photos of the
> Earth from space. Are we to assume all photos are always faked?
>
> Rgds,
>
> Owen Boyle
>
> PS I liked your one about Alexander Graham Bell :-)
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