Flat Earth Society

For years the Earth was thought to be flat. The groups of people that created and developed this theory were heavily influenced by religion and cultural practices that were prominent at the time. The theory was a way to explain the Earth and it made sense in the explanations people could create. After many years of scientific exploration and technological development this theory was disproven. The new theory was that Earth is a sphere. However, even after the observations of a spherical Earth the flat Earth theory is still around and widely believed today. This theory is different depending on the group of people present. According to Chris Fleming, “Different cultures at different times have posited a staggeringly diverse array of

Before the scientific revolution people believed that Earth was the center of the universe. That was widely believed by everyone until Nicholas Copernicus said that the sun was the center of the universe and the Earth orbited around it. Document one

Columbus’ postulation that the world was not flat because any educated person in that time new that the world was round.

It was to be that educated Europeans already believed that the world was round even before Columbus made the statement that the world was round. It was the Idea that the Greeks in the 5th century BC already came up with the myth that the world was round. Most believed that the world was flat and you could sail right off the earth. These people thought this because the maps that they used to navigate where a world that was flat and this is why they thought this. But studies identified the world as in a sphere but no christopher columbus was not the first to have estimated that the world is a

Ancient cultures did not believe the Earth to be the spherical object we know Earth to be

In the early medieval period, the masses believed that earth was at the center of the universe and everything revolved around it. “...the judgement of many centuries has approved the view that the Earth remains fixed as center in the midst of the heavens…” Nicolaus Copernicus thought that this idea was absurd and continued to explain that the Earth actually moves. He was afraid to even discuss the idea as anyone during the period would just reject it immediately. The Earth being flat was in part influenced by religion and by writing his theories, he was almost apologetic for suggesting the heavens were different from what almost all people believed. “...that the earth is situated in the third sphere and revolves with great speed around the sun, is a very dangerous thing, not only by irritating all the philosophers and scholastic theologians, but also injuring our holy faith and rendering the Holy Scriptures false.” The change in culture was seen as a danger to religion as the new ideas went against a lot of factors in religion. The strict religious ideas caused almost a cultural revolt for new ideas. But because religion was being changed radically, it left room for new ideas like this to start spreading to the

The social structure of Flatland is similar to the structure of the 1800s, when Abbott wrote the book. The males in Flatland are shapes composed of multiple sides, while the females are only straight lines. The greater number of sides each figure has, the higher their status is. This concept is quite similar to this time in Britian, where social casts and classes were relevant. Another common theme in Flatland and in the 1800s is that members of the classes wanted to rank up and become something greater. Flatland is written in first person, by A Square. This gives the overall novel a tone of closeness. We are hearing the events from a source that experienced and witnessed the events contained in the novel, which gives readers a better understanding of what happened. A Square is somewhere in the middle of the class ranks. He’s not a member of the lowest or highest social classes. This helps him to understand all the different viewpoints and perspectives in Flatland. By being in the middle class, he isn’t too biased towards one side or the other.

Modern society understands that the earth is round not flat, that it travels around the sun not the opposite, and that it’s spinning on its own axis. All these different beliefs are important in order to understand the ANE literature. As a result, this led the ANE to be primarily concerned about the role and function of material within the cosmic than mere existence. Unfortunately, this type of ideology that the earth is a flat disc, that gods’ spirits inhabit natural, man-made idols caused them to believe that the gods controlled the nature according to their function and place in time and space. As for an example, the stars, planets, moon, and sun were considered to be functioning in the same

The earth is flat, and lightning never strikes the same place twice are common scientific misconceptions. In most cases, these misunderstandings are relatively harmless. In other cases, they are critical.

This idea was introduced by Ptolemy to explain how the planets moved. However, the geocentric model

The first thing to know before anything is the terms, geocentrism and heliocentrism. Geocentrism is the theory, which states that the Earth is the center of the galaxy. Heliocentrism is the theory, which states that the Sun is the center of the galaxy. The ancient world thought that the theory of geocentrism was correct. However, the ancient world saw problems concerning the movement of the celestial bodies. The first problem was that some objects moved slower than other celestial beings. The second problem was that some objects had a different change in distances to the Earth. The third problem was that some objects looked like they were moving away from the Earth. However, Ptolemy, a famous astronomer, found answers to those questions that helped benefit the theory of geocentrism. To the first problem Ptolemy said that all the

In 1543 Nicholas Copernicus, a Polish Canon, published “On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs”. The popular view is that Copernicus discovered that the earth revolves

I would like to start this off by saying the idea of a flat Earth is the stupidest thing I've ever heard, and if you were to truly believe that the Earth is flat you might actually be a moron. Most people are to say that christians and Christianity started the idea of a flat world. But there were only “A handful of so-called intellectual Scholars throughout the centuries, claiming to represent the church, To held to a flat Earth.” The majority of these people were look down upon and ignored by the church. But their writings still somehow made it into earlier history books as being the “Official Christian viewpoint”.

The Copernican Revolution involves the exchange of a “geocentric” worldview to a “heliocentric” view and is inseparably linked to the “scientific revolution” of the seventeenth century movement that represents a renewal of all scientific knowledge of the time. Contrary to popular belief, the “idea that the Earth was round” was written by many ancient Greek texts, and was supported by many philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, among others. (Cohen, 30) During the

In view of Thomas Friedman’s work “It’s a flat world, after all”, the entire planet is turning into a global village due to a rapid growth of information technology. There are 10 major contributors, which were also named “flateners” by Friedman, that made the playing field level. Undoubtedly, current sophistication in technology has provided us great access to internet, a virtual platform where people are capable of communicating, sharing knowledge, or performing online activities. Globalization appears to have collapsed the concerns of space and time by outsourcing cheap labor from another continent to undertake the same task but with equal or better performance. To some extent, Friedman has brought about an