Putting it this way. Let's say you are 6 feet tall. The circumference of the earth is about 25,000 miles at the equator. Try plotting that to scale on your 12 inch globe.
jonnytimber.....?........Do you live in Kansas ? ........If so, how far from home have you ever been ?
My apologies to anyone in Kansas who might have been offended by that.
I didn't intend for it to be.
However, I think it might be easy to think the earth was flat if you had lived in a "flat land" area all your life , had never been more than a few miles from your home, had never observed the horizon from a seaside beach or from a ship at sea and had never studied geography.
And on all , or at least most of my posts, the facts I have posted are facts backed up by my own personal experiences long before the Internet or even TV.
For example, in most of my life I have lived in the North Central part of Texas, which is rather flat land. However, we made occasional trips to Galveston , Texas , on the coast of The Gulf Of Mexico. It was there I first observed the horizon, how far I could see to the horizon from both tbe beach and from an upper story of a hotel and observed ships passing to and from over the horizon.
Years later, during my "Boot Camp" period of service in the U.S. Navy in San Diego, California I took a bus out to Point Loma. I was much disappointed in that the Pacific Ocean at San Diego didn't look any bigger than the Gulf Of Mexico at Galveston under the same conditions. LOL.