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#171094 - seek to find game: facts, evidence, philisophy Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Kai Klaas said:
Every ingeneer having successfully passed his education at school and university has learned about the overwhelming Greeks' influence on natural sciences. And this forum would really be a sad place if we would only discuss electronic issues...
Ptolemy was stating that the earth is the center of universe, wasn't he? On the other hand, it was Eratosthenes, who was the first calculating the circumference of the earth, by analyzing the shadows of two wells! Kai Klaas Sure not a sad place when realizes in such concepts. That is what philosphers at those far ages made argues like. Aristarchus of Samos (310 BC – 230 BC) proposed an heliocentric model of the solar system at 3rd century BC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos Ptolemy (AD 90 – 168) followed another path with the geocentric system as more practical to known observations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy The seek to find game continues till today, following facts, evidence and still using philosophy. K.L.Angelis |