RE: How Muslims believed earth was spherical long before anybody mentions it.
March 11, 2015 at 5:34 am
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2015 at 5:38 am by GrandizerII.)
(March 11, 2015 at 4:47 am)AtlasS2 Wrote: I wasn't discussing the circumference of earth, or the greek philosophy of viewing earth as "a coin" with ending borders ; mostly referred to as "the end of the world". It's about earth being a sphere ; a ball, is so different than assuming the obvious observation that earth is round.
Eratosthenes assumed the Earth was round as in spherical. A coin is not a sphere or a ball ...
Quote:Irrational
Not arbitrary, Irrational, but "accurate". The arbitrary translation is the one you find in the links.
Then why did you post the link if you don't agree with the definitions provided there? You understand that I got the definition from that link, right?
Quote:No. In Arabic there is already a word for rolling and that is "لف يلف لفاً" or go back to "كسا يكسي" or غطى يغطي. All these are used to describe what you meant : rolling something, over something else.
According to the link you posted, "youkawwer" can mean "yalouff" (to roll).
By the way, "youghatti" means to cover, not to roll.
Quote:??
http://www.universetoday.com/60174/does-the-sun-move/
Dude the sun has a course, along with the whole solar system, orbiting the center of the milky way.
A parsimonious reading of the verse shows that it's referring to the common misunderstanding among the ancients that the sun actually moved in the sky.
You will not find anywhere in the Qur'an that the Earth moves in a course and around the sun. There's a reason for that.
Quote:Check this verse which told people about it 1400 years ago before NASA :
( 37 ) And a sign for them is the night. We remove from it [the light of] day, so they are [left] in darkness.
( 38 ) And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.
( 39 ) And the moon - We have determined for it phases, until it returns [appearing] like the old date stalk.
( 40 ) It is not allowable for the sun to reach the moon, nor does the night overtake the day, but each, in an orbit, is swimming. Page 442.
So the sun has a stopping point???
Color me unimpressed.
