VMs: Ptolmey and the spherical earth

["Jim Comegys" <Comegys_J@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a book entitled "Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings' which goes into detail about the Piri Reis map and how it shows the surface, un-iced, of Antarctica.  You will appreciate the know-how of our honorable ancestors.

Jim Comegys
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> Subject: 	OT, was Ptolemy in Re: VMs: Traditional Astrology and the Flat Earth
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> Zitat von Pamela Richards <spirlhelix@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> > Ptolemy on the Shape of the Earth, from the Almagest,
> > Book I, Ch. 4.:
> > 
> > "Now, that also the earth taken as a whole is sensibly
> > spherical, we could most likely think out in this way.
> >  For again it is possible to see that the sun and moon
> > and the other stars do not rise and set at the same
> > time for every observer on the earth, but always
> > earlier for those living towards the orient and later
> > for those living towards the occident...And since the
> > differences in the hours is found to be proportional
> > to the distances between the places, one would
> > reasonably suppose the surface of the earth
> > spherical...
> 
> That is pretty cool. How on Earth did he measure that...?
> 
>    Elmar, seriously stumped
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