Timeline for Simple check for the global shape of the Earth
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| Oct 19, 2018 at 8:14 | comment | added | ElmoVanKielmo | @LerinSonberg I'm sorry but David is completely right. Latitude and longitude can be defined even for an imaginary sphere anywhere in space. And it just happens that those people scattered around the world making the measurements and reports, well, they'd simply confirm they were precisely on the surface of that sphere. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 16:04 | comment | added | David White | Lerin, latitude and longitude, whether you believe in them or not, allow you to find the spot on the small globe where you supposedly are. Then, you can take measurements off the small globe and verify that the reported measurements match. | |
| Oct 18, 2018 at 8:02 | comment | added | Lerin Sonberg | Good idea, but "latitude" and "longitude" are defined for a spherical Earth. One may argue that the result is invalid (or tautological), because you used this terms. | |
| Oct 16, 2018 at 16:52 | comment | added | DonielF | More specifically, take the same flashlight on a flat earth map and show that those angles are impossible if you don’t assume a globe. | |
| Oct 15, 2018 at 19:57 | history | answered | David White | CC BY-SA 4.0 |