FLAT EARTHERS-GET A FRiKiN LIFE

Professor Dave Humiliates Flat Earther David Weiss (DITRH Debunked Live)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he-7vs0BkLE

Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk.

The idea of a spherical Earth appeared in ancient Greek philosophy with Pythagoras (6th century BC). However, most pre-Socratics (6th–5th century BC) retained the flat-Earth model.

In the early 4th century BC, Plato wrote about a spherical Earth. By about 330 BC, his former student Aristotle had provided strong empirical evidence for a spherical Earth.

Knowledge of the Earth's global shape gradually began to spread beyond the Hellenistic world.

By the early period of the Christian Church, the spherical view was widely held, with some notable exceptions.

It is a historical myth that medieval Europeans generally thought the Earth was flat.

This myth was created in the 17th century by Protestants to argue against Catholic teachings.

Despite the scientific fact and obvious effects of Earth's sphericity, pseudoscientific flat-Earth conspiracy theories are espoused by modern flat Earth societies and, increasingly, by unaffiliated individuals using social media.

Pythagoras in the 6th century BC and Parmenides in the 5th century stated that the Earth is spherical, and this view spread rapidly in the Greek world.

Around 330 BC, Aristotle maintained on the basis of physical theory and observational evidence that the Earth was spherical, and reported an estimate of its circumference.

The Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by Eratosthenes.

By the 2nd century AD, Ptolemy had derived his maps from a globe and developed the system of latitude, longitude, and climes.

His Almagest was written in Greek and only translated into Latin in the 11th century from Arabic translations.