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Columbus Knew the Earth Was Round (and so did everyone else) (short video)
TimeGhost History (on YouTube) ^
| Oct 6, 2021
| Indy Neidell & Spartacus Olsson
Posted on 10/06/2021 5:25:40 PM PDT by Salman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Tbw5q219w
TOPICS: Astronomy; Conspiracy; History; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; astronomy; catholic; columbus; eratosthenes; godsgravesglyphs; indyneidell; oblatespheroid; science; spartacusolsson; timeghosthistory; youtube
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To: motor_racer
That sounds spurious because sailors were travelling well down south along the African coast. It was when they were travelling West that they had no landfall and many of them never returned.
There was evidence the Phoenicians returned from American lands but their dominance of the Mediterranean was short-lived and they didn’t have good enough navigation tools to land in the same place twice.
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posted on
10/07/2021 8:05:30 AM PDT
by
Kevmo
(I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
To: Paal Gulli
Columbus didn’t think that until his third voyage, per the Wikipedia link you posted.
Such a model had first been theorized by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage. Making observations with a quadrant, he “regularly saw the plumb line fall to the same point,” instead of moving respectively to his ship, and subsequently hypothesized that the planet is pear-shaped.[9]
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posted on
10/07/2021 8:11:33 AM PDT
by
Kevmo
(I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
To: Kevmo
The Frozen Echo, Greenland and the Exploration of North America ca A.D. 1000-1500, Kirsten A. Seaver
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posted on
10/07/2021 4:33:49 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
10/07/2021 9:47:46 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
He would had to have known - he was sailing to the East Indies!
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posted on
10/07/2021 9:48:31 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Turns out, he wasn’t after the east indies, he was conducting the first panty raid, seeking the east undies. Total perv.
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posted on
10/07/2021 9:54:45 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/07/2021 10:01:47 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
Every sea captain worth his sextant knew the Earth was round.................
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posted on
10/08/2021 5:48:08 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Verginius Rufus
He never saw North America, Just South...............
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posted on
10/08/2021 5:49:20 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Eddie01
If the Earth is flat, why doesn’t all the water in the oceans run off?..............
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posted on
10/08/2021 5:51:24 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Because there's an icewall all the way around. As to why the ice doesn't fall off... /jk
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posted on
10/08/2021 7:49:14 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Red Badger
On his fourth voyage, in 1502, Columbus sailed along the coast of Central America from Honduras to Panama.
To: Red Badger
Even those who used the astrolabe knew it.
The sextant came along right after the quintant.
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posted on
10/08/2021 10:36:22 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
And before that, the Quadrant...............
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posted on
10/08/2021 10:42:45 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
And in the days of Poseidon, the tridant, er, trident.
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posted on
10/08/2021 10:45:04 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
And before that the ever popular BiDent..................
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posted on
10/08/2021 10:47:39 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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posted on
10/08/2021 10:48:31 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Red Badger
Eventually they’ll be using the Polident.
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posted on
10/08/2021 10:51:29 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
And Fixodent.......................
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posted on
10/08/2021 10:51:54 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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