The Earth is Flat

foundation so that it never can be shaken.”-Isaiah 45:18: “…who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast.”-all these thoughts agree with the idea of geocentrism that the earth is a fixed body with all other bodies revolving around it-during the temptation of Christ → Matthew 4:8 says, “Once again, the devil took him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world [cosmos] in their glory.” – if the earth were indeed flat then Jesus could see the whole earth-Revelation 1:7: “Behold, he is coming with the clouds! Every eye shall see him…”Major proponents of the misperception- Catholic Church – according to the bible, the earth was a fixed shape by godClassical Antiquity-Democritus-Anaximander - believed the Earth to be a short cylinder with a flat, circular top which remained stable because it is the same distance from all things -LeucippusClassical Times-Lucretius - opposed the concept of a spherical Earth, because he considered the idea of antipodes absurd (-antipodes are two points which are diametrically opposite from each other and are connected by a straight line though the center of the Earth) – the word’s meaning was changed from "under the feet, opposite side" to "those with the feet opposite" Implications of the misperceptions (how it affected life)- I have no clue what to say here.Reasons why our perception has changed-Columbus didn’t fall off the side of the EarthLogical Reasons Today-we’ve seen the Earth, mathematically can prove it-we’re circumnavigated the earth and reached the same twice while going in the same direction while not falling off and therefore the earth is a continual shape with no corners or edges to fall off of and this implies that the earth is round-we’ve seen the earth from space and so we can see the entirety of it. If the earth was flat then we would have been able to see the whole surface area of the land that we have inhabited.Sayings We’ve Grown Up Hearing About the Globe-“all around the world”-“across the globe”Major proponents of the new way of perceiving the item-Pythagoras – on aesthetic grounds held that all the celestial bodies were spherical because the sun and the moon were both round. He decided that spherical is the simplest 3-dimensional shape so he thought the earth should be round too: he didn’t prove it, but he realized how big it was.-Aristotle – observational evidence (travelers seeing southern constellations rise higher above the horizon) ← only possible if their horizon is at an angle to the northerner’s horizon  -also, noted border of Earth’s shadow on Moon during partial phases as always being  circular, no matter the height of the Moon over the horizon (only spheres cast circular shadow’s in every direction whereas circular disks cast elliptical shadows in all directions apart from directly above and below-Euclid-Aristarchus-Ptolomy- Saint Augustine argued against the possibility of antipodes because of the Church’s belief of a unified human race descended from one couple and redeemed by Jesus Christ; he doubted their existence because these peoples would have had to be descended from Adam and then travel to the other side of the earth by some means that had not been historically documentedImplications of the “corrected” perception- navigationless fearmore travelcultural diffusion because people traveled around the worlddiscovery, pillaging, defacing,