Timeline for answer to Did medieval scholars believe the Earth was round? by Stevernator
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| Feb 23, 2024 at 2:33 | comment | added | cmw | Not only is this answer implied in the opening question, it also doesn't necessarily mean that Medieval scholars knew of Eratosthenes or believed him. | |
| May 18, 2018 at 15:52 | comment | added | Albert van der Horst | In a less well-known treatise "the sand reckoner" Archimedes pictures a universe where the sun is in the centre, the distance between the earth and the sun is huge., the diameter of the sun is larger than the earth and the ratio between sun diameter and earth orbit, is equal to earth orbit and the stars. This is remarkably qualitatively correct, but it was merely to fill the cosmos with grains of sand in order to prove that mathematics is able to express that number. Because the cosmos was a side trail, it gives an insight about how archimedes pictured the cosmos. | |
| May 18, 2018 at 12:52 | comment | added | Tim Lymington | That should really be "much of the Ancient Greeks' writing was preserved by the Church during the Dark Ages". | |
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| May 18, 2018 at 2:25 | history | answered | Stevernator | CC BY-SA 4.0 |