The sumerians knew detailed information about our solarsystem more than 600=
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years ago. They didn't discover this, it was taught to them...

The early history of mankind is yet an unwritten book. There is indication =
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we knew quite a lot a long, long time ago. This knowledge has since been lo=
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and it is just in recent years (the last couple of hundred years) that we g=
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understand it which is why we couldn't teach it to coming generations and f=
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every generation a little bit got lost. Now we begin to understand these th=
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on our own.


/Ruben


> Kerry:
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> THANK YOU for stating this - I am SO tired of people saying that it
> was recent that Europeans thought that the earth was flat. It is such
> a common misconception about the history of human knowledge.
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> Sean
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> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Kerry Wentworth
> <kwentworth@skunkworksnh.com> wrote:
> > Actually, the shape of the earth has been known since antiquity,
> > although the size was unknown.  The size was determined by Eratosthenes
> > about 300 BCE as 24000 miles in circumference.  Columbus did not try to
> > convince people the earth was a sphere (they already knew that), he
> > tried to convince people it was 3000 miles in circumference.  Had he no=
t
> > run into an unknown continent, his expedition would have been lost, jus=
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> > as almost everybody expected it to be.
> >
> > There is a big difference between what a person CAN understand vs. what
> > a person DOES understand.
> >
> > Kerry
> >
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