consider...a sailor.
If they climb up on a mast they can see further...past the horizon.
Oh wait...what IS a horizon...what would cause that phenomena whereyou could climb up high and see higher...if the earth was Flat, like a pool table...your line of sight would be parallel to the surface...not tangent to it.
Consider a shepard...watching his flocks at night. Lookup in the sky and see the starts....rotating? Rotating around the pole start...polaris. How to keep up with ONE star out of so many? How can you keep track of them and know where they go in one night? (ahem) Constellations? The big bear (urasa major) and the little bear (ursa minor)...spin around the pole star.
Now why would they do that if the earth was FLAT?
Common examples...normal people knew this.
It took a real intellectual to discard common sense and knowledge to come up with something else.
Not much has changed huh?
only the intellectuals EVER thought that the earth was flat.
regular people who worked out doors knew better.
That's not something you hear every day. Can you elaborate on that?
consider...a sailor.
If they climb up on a mast they can see further...past the horizon.
Oh wait...what IS a horizon...what would cause that phenomena whereyou could climb up high and see higher...if the earth was Flat, like a pool table...your line of sight would be parallel to the surface...not tangent to it.
Consider a shepard...watching his flocks at night. Lookup in the sky and see the starts....rotating? Rotating around the pole start...polaris. How to keep up with ONE star out of so many? How can you keep track of them and know where they go in one night? (ahem) Constellations? The big bear (urasa major) and the little bear (ursa minor)...spin around the pole star.
Now why would they do that if the earth was FLAT?
Common examples...normal people knew this.
It took a real intellectual to discard common sense and knowledge to come up with something else.
Not much has changed huh?