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The Greeks actually were the first to figure out that it was a sphere and calculate the circumference based on scientific observation. But Ptolemy erred in believing that it was a perfect sphere, and therefore underestimated the actual size.

But back to the Jive Turkeys and their made-up Islamic accomplishments. They have to make them up. They have no real ones.

1 posted on 11/30/2014 3:19:26 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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IIRC, Eratosthenes demonstrated the Earth was round and calculated the circumference based upon observations of the sun's apogee illuminating the depths of a well, approximately a millennium before the birth of Mohammed.

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2 posted on 11/30/2014 3:23:33 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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Camel doots.


3 posted on 11/30/2014 3:24:48 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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The astronauts were actually filmed in a secret studio in Istanbul.

Cuz Tayyip Recep Erdogan knows its a Muslim achievement.

The Americans made the moon landing all up.


4 posted on 11/30/2014 3:25:10 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Muslim scientists led by al-Khwarizmi convened by the order of the Caliph Al-Ma'mun and revealed that the Earth is a sphere

Much like the backside of a goat!


5 posted on 11/30/2014 3:25:43 PM PST by humblegunner (Why hello, Captain Trips.)
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Obama has NASA complicit with this.
Their current focus is to make muzzies feel good about their accomplishments in space.
And this dovetails nicely with Barry big ears “everything Islam is superior” outlook.


6 posted on 11/30/2014 3:26:25 PM PST by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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Muslims discovered dentistry

7 posted on 11/30/2014 3:27:57 PM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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The Greeks actually were the first to figure out that it was a sphere

Not quite:

"He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth" Isaiah 40:22

8 posted on 11/30/2014 3:28:28 PM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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It was Eratosthenes, actually, who correctly measured the circumference of the Earth in something like 220 BC, long before Mohammed lopped off his first head.


9 posted on 11/30/2014 3:30:06 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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Haha.

Eratosthenes

“c. 276 BC[1] – c. 195/194 BC[2]) was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist.”

“He is best known for being the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth, which he did by applying a measuring system using stades, or the length of stadia during that time period. His calculation was remarkably accurate.”

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

So, if he was the first person to calculate the circumference, for how long earlier was it commonly accepted that the earth is round.


12 posted on 11/30/2014 3:32:23 PM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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fact i..... that most muslims.... still dont get the round earth concept....


16 posted on 11/30/2014 3:38:41 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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I thought the Babylonians believed the Earth to be round.


21 posted on 11/30/2014 3:44:59 PM PST by fso301
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The pre-First Dynasty Chinese, the Jomaran Japanese, the Sumerians, the Phoneticians, the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom to name a few all knew the Earth was round.

It was only the Europeans, locked in the Dark Ages, who were willfully ignorant that the Earth is a sphere. Whatever knowledge they might have inherited from the Greeks, they burned.

Thousands of years before Christ was, various cultures were aware of the Earth’s shape. Minister Fikri is either behind on his history or, like the Europeans of the Dark Ages, willfully ignorant. Then again, maybe it is taqiyya for the muslim masses.


24 posted on 11/30/2014 3:47:25 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Before or after they wiped and dipped with their left hand


26 posted on 11/30/2014 3:51:01 PM PST by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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> But back to the Jive Turkeys and their made-up Islamic accomplishments. They have to make them up. They have no real ones.

Well stated. All muslims ever did was enslave Greek and other European scientists and take credit for their work.


27 posted on 11/30/2014 3:51:11 PM PST by BuffaloJack (Muslim Creeping Conquest of America and Canada)
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Actually he means that Muslims discovered the earth was round last week.


30 posted on 11/30/2014 3:53:37 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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Which means most moslems pray in to space and not “towards” mecca.


32 posted on 11/30/2014 4:14:03 PM PST by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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Oh,goodie.

A new Internet meme. Turks say Muslim did amazing things.

Like the Chuck Norris jokes.

I’ll go first.

The Turks say that Muslims were the first to land on the moon.


34 posted on 11/30/2014 4:21:09 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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>>The Greeks actually were the first to figure out that it was a sphere and calculate the circumference based on scientific observation.

Exactly - no Greek writer thought the earth was anything BUT round after 400 BC. That’s a THOUSAND YEARS before the advent of Islam, you know, the language that believed that Christ animated clay birds and that he ISN’T the final prophet but somehow shows up at the end of time.


35 posted on 11/30/2014 4:23:11 PM PST by struggle
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Islams discovered the world is round? When? The only thing I'll give Islam is the Arabic numbers.

Someone wrote that Islam discovered America. Sorry I'd believe America was discovered by space aliens before I believe Muzzies discovered America.

36 posted on 11/30/2014 4:26:01 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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Islam will be the last to embrace freedom for both its adherents and for the slaves they own.


38 posted on 11/30/2014 4:54:41 PM PST by Jumper
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