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Atheists & Agnostics

NeoGreen

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1. Any marine navigator...

Reply to cleanhippie (Original post)

Fri Aug 15, 2014, 08:09 AM

Aug 2014

... of that age could have refuted his claim with ease.

They had been using spherical trigonometry to navigate the globe for well over a century by 1865, because gasp the earth is round.

The delusion of today is nothing new.

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The Rim at the End of the World [View all] cleanhippie Aug 2014 OP

Any marine navigator... NeoGreen Aug 2014 #1

Effectively settled by the Discworld novels, I thought? See The Science of Discworld II: The Globe mr blur Aug 2014 #2

And then turtles edhopper Aug 2014 #3

But are they ninja turtles? sakabatou Aug 2014 #4