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“In the 8th Century, the Greek philosopher Homer thought that the Earth was flat. Many of the less educated people in the 15th Century still held on to that concept when Columbus set sail, following the setting sun west. The less informed warned Columbus and his crew of the danger of sailing right off the edge of the Earth. However, navigators and mathematicians knew better, since Greek philosophers in the 5th Century such as Parmenides, Empedocles and Pythagoras had already proved, by using various scientific methods, that the Earth was round. In about 200 BC Eratosthenes, who lived along the Nile near Alexandria, Egypt, calculated the circumference of the Earth to within a very close tolerance. Later in Prussia, Copernicus presented his concept that the Sun was the center of the Solar system and theorized that the planets revolved around it. It was not coincidental that Copernicus did this shortly after Columbus discovered the new continent. Although the ancients did not have radio and television, they could communicate by various means, and definitely knew what was going on. However there were those who remained superstitious, believing that there were monstrous sea creatures near the edge of the Earth. But Columbus and other relatively educated people knew better!”

Cuba Columbus Mma Captain Hank Bracker Round Earth

Author:Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba, Cuban History

“Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.”

World Long Earth Night Faith Sea Wind Breaths Lays Rounds Edges Naked Melancholy Shore Folds Withdrawing Girdles Shingles Round Earth

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Dilbert: You joined the "Flat Earth Society?" Dogbert: I believe the earth must be flat. There is no good evidence to support the so-called "round earth theory." Dilbert: I think Christopher Columbus would disagree. Dogbert: How convenient that your best witness is dead.”

Thinking Believe Earth Science I Believe Support Theory Evidence Rounds Witness Flats Disagree Convenient Columbus Dilbert Round Earth

Author:Scott Adams

“We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.”

“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--- No---yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowed upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever---or else swoon in death.”

“The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.”

“At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.”

Earth Angel Rounds Blow Corners Trumpets Round Earth

Author:John Donne

“The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.”

Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

“Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down.”

Thinking Inspirational Ideas Earth Order Challenges Evolution Rounds Recovery Great Idea Upside Down Round Earth

Author:Laurie Davidson

“Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.”

Ifs Men World Able Earth Space Quality Practice Theory Equal Rounds Spheres Globes Free Man Airmen Round Earth

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.”

Littles Use Earth Spirit Given Levels Common Practice Elements Paper Towns Rounds Ghost Fats Maps Instruction Compass Excursions Road Maps Round Earth

Book:The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land

“The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.”

Believe Home Light Earth Belief I Believe Space Saws Holy Blue Rounds Astronaut Space Exploration Relics Beautiful Earth Earth And Sky Light Blue Round Earth

Author:Alexey Leonov

“I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.”

Believe Earth Belief I Believe Space Saws Rounds Astronaut Beautiful Earth Earth And Sky Round Earth

Author:Alexey Leonov

“. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.”

Ifs Men World Way Life Whole Dream Hands Earth Night Voice Prayer Brain Knowing Feet This World Gold Blind Bounds Rounds Chains Lifts Fountain Knowing God Goats God Life Round Earth

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.”

War Soul Age Earth Law Chance Despair Angel Rounds Blow Corners Tyranny Arise Infinity Trumpets Round Earth

Book:John Donne Holy Sonnets: with an introduction by John Daniel Thieme

Source: John Donne Holy Sonnets: with an introduction by John Daniel Thieme

“The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth.”

Two Earth Together Humanity History Discovery Rounds Flats Significance Columbus Interconnected Round Earth

Author:Matt Taibbi