1 Jul
2007
1 Jul
'07
2:26 p.m.
> PS. The world was a whole lot smaller then too,
ask Atlas about that
> some time.
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
No it wasn't. Ask Eratosthenes. 8-)
Eratosthenes and Archimedes lived at the same time. The one who had
drastically underestimated the size of the Earth was Pythagoras, 300
years earlier.
. . . and again by Columbus. Everyone who wasn't calling 976 psychic
lines knew that the earth was round, and how large it was, and therefore
why WEST was not a practical direction to go to get to the indies.
Columbus had a crackpot idea that the earth was about 1/3 its present
size, resulting in him finding some land in the way.