123) "Heliocentrists’ astronomical figures always sound
perfectly precise, but they have historically been notorious for regularly and
drastically changing them to suit their various models. For instance, in his
time Copernicus calculated the Sun’s distance from Earth to be 3,391,200 miles.
The next century Johannes Kepler decided it was actually 12,376,800 miles away.
Issac Newton once said, “It matters not whether we reckon it 28 or 54 million
miles distant for either would do just as well!”
How scientific!? Benjamin
Martin calculated between 81 and 82 million miles, Thomas Dilworth claimed
93,726,900 miles, John Hind stated positively 95,298,260 miles, Benjamin Gould
said more than 96 million miles, and Christian Mayer thought it was more than
104 million! Flat-Earthers throughout the ages, conversely, have used sextants
and plane trigonometry to make such calculations and found the Sun and Moon
both to be only about 32 miles in diameter and less than a few thousand miles
from Earth.”
Yes: real science changes, it progresses, it tests itself,
corrects error, and becomes more precise as new methods develop. So it’s result
change. The mark of dogmatic faith positions like flat-earthism is precisely
that they do not change, don’t progress, don’t examine their own error.
And by the way, how can you tell the difference between a
small orb (or disk) close by and a much
larger one at a correspondingly greater distance, just by measuring their
apparent size? You can’t.
For more on the rays from the sun, see 125
This is worth a look, on the subject of the moon, too:
For more on the rays from the sun, see 125
This is worth a look, on the subject of the moon, too:
Add to this: Since we measured the distance to the sun using the transit of Venus in 1769, this value has only changed by about 2 % later and has remained virtually constant for many decades.
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