Really interesting video, but no one in Europe thought the earth was flat (comment made at time point 6:14 of this video) in the the Middle Ages (this fantasy was promoted by the author Washington Irvine in the 1820's to promote his book on Columbus, the reason why the Portuguese rejected Columbus's proposal to sail to China was not that they thought the world was flat but they knew it was much bigger than what Columbus claimed it to be, however that's a story for another time), just look at any image of a king/Queen in the Middle Ages holding an orb (that represented the round earth, also look at Roman coins with the round earth) or a common text book written by Johannes de Sacrobosco, "The Sphere " published around 1230 AD and required reading in European Universities for almost 400 years (the first chapter clearly describes the Earth as a sphere, both in text and diagrams ). All European sailors know the world was round as the boat viewed from the shore disappeared below the horizon, Portalan maps where used at least as far back as the 1270"s and T and O maps representing a round world were in use from Isidore of Seville times circa 600AD through till about 1500 AD. The Greeks by around 500 B.C. knew that the Earth was round, not flat. But they had no idea how big the planet was until about 240 B.C., when Eratosthenes devised a method of estimating its circumference at about 40,000 Km, which is very close to its actual circumference of 40,075 km.
Eratosthenes metod for calculating the circumference of the Earth only improved upon existing knowledge. The circumference had already been calculated, but not as accurate as Eratostenes method did.
00:58 “The reference is actually here.” The video is fascinatingly, perhaps deliberately, ambiguous. The Middle of the World monument with its globe and yellow line “marking the Equator” are all misplaced. The actual location of the Equator is 240 meters to the north. Another museum nearby, the Intiñan Solar Museum, claims to be exactly on the Equator-it has a red line marking it-but it isn’t clear that it is. Yet a _third_ attraction, the Quitsato Sundial, appears to be exactly at 0° degrees latitude. Somehow the fact that there are countless pictures of tourists straddling a somewhat arbitrary line with one leg in “less South” and one in “more South” seems immensely satisfying, sort of a tribute to the arbitrariness of the universe.
Really interesting video, but no one in Europe thought the earth was flat (comment made at time point 6:14 of this video) in the the Middle Ages (this fantasy was promoted by the author Washington Irvine in the 1820's to promote his book on Columbus, the reason why the Portuguese rejected Columbus's proposal to sail to China was not that they thought the world was flat but they knew it was much bigger than what Columbus claimed it to be, however that's a story for another time), just look at any image of a king/Queen in the Middle Ages holding an orb (that represented the round earth, also look at Roman coins with the round earth) or a common text book written by Johannes de Sacrobosco, "The Sphere " published around 1230 AD and required reading in European Universities for almost 400 years (the first chapter clearly describes the Earth as a sphere, both in text and diagrams ). All European sailors know the world was round as the boat viewed from the shore disappeared below the horizon, Portalan maps where used at least as far back as the 1270"s and T and O maps representing a round world were in use from Isidore of Seville times circa 600AD through till about 1500 AD. The Greeks by around 500 B.C. knew that the Earth was round, not flat. But they had no idea how big the planet was until about 240 B.C., when Eratosthenes devised a method of estimating its circumference at about 40,000 Km, which is very close to its actual circumference of 40,075 km.
thank you for saying this i only found out about the greeks knowing it wasnt flat a couple months ago!! middle school was a lie!!
Eratosthenes metod for calculating the circumference of the Earth only improved upon existing knowledge. The circumference had already been calculated, but not as accurate as Eratostenes method did.
hahaha
Arrogant Ecuadorian buffoon
00:58 “The reference is actually here.”
The video is fascinatingly, perhaps deliberately, ambiguous. The Middle of the World monument with its globe and yellow line “marking the Equator” are all misplaced. The actual location of the Equator is 240 meters to the north. Another museum nearby, the Intiñan Solar Museum, claims to be exactly on the Equator-it has a red line marking it-but it isn’t clear that it is. Yet a _third_ attraction, the Quitsato Sundial, appears to be exactly at 0° degrees latitude.
Somehow the fact that there are countless pictures of tourists straddling a somewhat arbitrary line with one leg in “less South” and one in “more South” seems immensely satisfying, sort of a tribute to the arbitrariness of the universe.
I crossed the line three times in a ship! Nothing to see, only water 😂
it's not static
Good👍
Very interesting
Every point can be centre on the sphere
Earth is an oblate spheroid so your statement is incorrect
French geodesic mission? U mean the rose line?😳🌹
Europeans still obsessed with the shape of this planet. Outrageous!
Am I the only one not listening
Louis Godwin? What an insultingly bad piece of work with the tiny little shoulders? Was there really such a person?
Who cares?
You cared enough to comment.
Ha Ha Ha, close but no cigar...
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@@Rainman000 lol, that's funny, but disdaine isn't caring clown 🤡
Says someone who is programmed by YT Mix playlists, and has none of their own.
Then don't watch