carahunge Stone Carahunge, a 7,500 year old stone circle. It was used as a Temple, a University and an Observatory. at the right time constellations could be seen through holes carved into the rocks.
Temple to AR
University
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Observatory
Not much is knowm as to HOW the Ancient Armenian’s knew so much - but one would assume they had common sense.
Common
Sense
Sailors always knew the earth was at least curved because boats disappeared over the horizon. see. Common sense.
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The Common Thought
these were what they thought to be the underworld
Invisible Columns holding up the atmosphere
t: “the earth is a dome” THIS AN EARLY REPRESENTATION OF WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT THE WORLD LOOKED LIKE BEFORE THEY KNEW IT WAS A SPHERE. THEY didn’t think much of the ground beneath their feet which is probably why it was the moon that made people first think the world could be spherical.
Stars were held up by string apparently
Outside the Ancient Armenians it was Pythagoras that first proposed the earth to be round in 500bc
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PYTHAGORAS
by observing the moon and its phases His logic told him that if the moon was round then the earth must be also.
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Solar Eclipse
ANAXAGORUS SUSSED OUT THE CAUSES OF SOLAR AND LUNAR ECLIPSES AND FIGURED OUT THAT...
...THE SHADOW ON THE MOON DURING A LUNAR ECLIPSE WAS THE SHADOW OF THE EARTH.
Lunar Eclipse
Anaxagorus
Equator
Aristotle
ARISTOTLE DECLARED THE EARTH WAS A SPHERE BY NOTICING YOU COULD SEE DIFFERENT CONSTELLATIONS THE FURTHER FROM THE EQUATOR YOU GOT.
Eratosthenes Alexandria
Direction of sunlight
5,000 Stadia 7.2째
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The Sun
Syene
Eratosthenes, a greek philosopher living in egypt, was able to calculate the circumference of the globe just by knowing the information of this diagram. His result was only 16% out of the modern measurement.