(June 21, 2013 at 12:44 pm)Rahul Wrote: C'mon guys. Isn't anyone going to point out to this enrico guy that Galileo had nothing to do with trying to tell people the Earth was round?
(June 15, 2013 at 7:55 am)enrico Wrote: Few hundreds years ago when Galileo and other scientists were saying that the planet earth was not flat and was not the center of the universe the ignorant masses were saying.........GIMMAH THE EVIDENCE.
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Galileo did not have a spaceship to take the masses up in the space so they could see the planet earth round like a ball and also they could see their planet as a small piece of dust compared to the vast universe.
Quote:Ancient Greek philosophers posited that the Earth was round as early as 6th Century B.C.
It is not definitively known which scientist first proved that the Earth is spherical. The discovery is variably attributed to Pythagoras, Zeno, or Hesiod.
http://answers.ask.com/society/history/w...h_is_round
Pythagoras 570 BC - 495 BC
Zeno 490 BC – 430 BC
Hesiod 750 BC - 650 BC
Galileo 15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642
Galileo championed the idea of heliocentrism. That the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun.
I know these theists are annoying but we can't just stand by while they spout retarded shit about EVERYTHING.
How fussy and boring a person can be!!!
When i mention Galileo i also said............As Galileo and other scientists found difficult to give evidence..............i meant all the wave of scientists that came up with a different point of view from the conventional point of view got into ridicule.
If you really want to be fussy and claim that this or that was discovered by such and such person you got to be really careful.
Officially is also said that America was discovered by Mr Columbus but more evidence found that the Vikings went there first.
Some time ago when i was watching a documentary i heard that an Indian astronomer discover all those things about our planet long before the Greeks and the europeans and therefore in schools are teaching the wrong thing about these discoveries.
Now this may or may not be truth in any case if we want to have the last word about the issue we should make sure 100% or in case we can't we should keep our mouth well shut.
In other words it is always important to be careful in choosing the official version without first analyze the UNofficial version.