(June 4, 2013 at 11:17 pm)cneron Wrote: Science "Then" is when? Eratosthenes demonstrated a round earth and Aristarchus theorized a heliocentric model of the solar system that had nothing to do with the earth being supported on the back of anything---in the 3rd century BC.
Correct. And the church rejected heliocentrism (which the graphic fails to mention) for at least 20 centuries after the Greeks knew about it.