Well because there is endless clips that explains the same thing and some are watched millons of times. This animation is cool but not something very outstanding
@@roderickkrause8344 In another video the distance between Syene and Alexandria was given as 5000 stadia, which makes more sense. For this video's calculation a Stadium must have had a length of approx 1 Mile, which sounds illogical in the day's standards.
The measurements Eratosthenes took are based on the assumption that the sun is millions of miles away. (The distance of the sun has changed significantly over the last thousand years, by the way.) The flat earth model has the sun close to the earth (about 3000 miles) and smaller (about 33 miles wide). The sun then acts like a "spotlight" more than a giant ball of light, and it produces a finite throw of light. Therefore - going back to Eratosthenes- if the sun were directly above the well at Syene, it *would* cast a shadow on the stick at Alexandria.
@@AOMartialArts You have a point. This experiment of Eratosthenes was not designed to prove the shape of the Earth, but to measure its size. The shape was already well known to scholars at the time. If you reject the spheroid shape, and plug the two measurements into a Flat Earth Model, then yes, you could assume a small local sun. It should be noted though, that you will get an arbitrary height for the sun entirely dependent on where your two points of observation are. Now, with only a small adjustment, you can repeat this experiment in a way that tests the shape of the planet as well. Simply increase the number of points that you measure the angle from. This causes no issue on a globe. You can add hundreds of points and get consistent results, all pointing to an angular change of 1 degree for evey 69 miles. If you try to make 3 or more observations work under the Flat Earth Assumption it falls apart. If you have three different angles and you try to plot the suns height as where a pair of lines intercept, you will find yourself calculating _multiple_ positions for the sun. It gets worse, very quickly the more points you add. So, yeah, strictly speaking, Eratosthenes method with two points doesn't prove a globe Earth, but with 3 or more points, it completely contradicts a flat Earth, and fits with a spheroid Earth.
@@slev7n. The official distance which is currently 93 million miles has changed over the years because either they don't know or are just making it up.
How come there is no record of Eratosthene appearing in any books until the 1900's? Clearly some mythical entity to fool the masses just like most history. it's just HIS STORY
@@Original_Renegadeit’s not a “ BS” story, it’s empirical data that is easily verifiable, Flerf. You on the other hand have no evidence for your flat fantasy world
@@AOMartialArts He was trying to measure the size of the Earth not the distance from the sun! Besides the distance didn't matter because we know damn well a beam of light always goes straight! STUPIDITY AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL
OUCH... logical fallacy detected. The suns reflection from the well came from the center of the earth? Deepest hole we have dug is 9 inches across and 7.5 miles deep... the Kola Borehole. Do we recall what Eratosthenes map of the world looked like? ... but this is history and NO ONE would ever fabricate this stuff ...... right? ...... right?
@@1laforees829 not necessarily note Newtonian mechanics being overthrown by einsteinian gravity. While Newtonian mechanics is still absolutely correct in many ways it's still technically "not the truth".
