There is no contradiction. All of the celestial bodies being about the same height != all are at the same height.
For example, for many years we have held that the stars are generally just above the altitude of the sun.
FYI, this is the debate section of the forum. You completely dismissed the evidence given in the original post. That's fine. But you seem to completely dodge giving any reason WHY you dismissed this evidence. And you seem to be avoiding giving out any details of your counter-theory. This isn't very conducive to debate. If anything, this is an indication that you don't have a viable counter-theory.
What evidence in the original post? A small diagram isn't evidence. That doesn't tell us how perspective behaves at large distances.
I asked for a name of the scientist who studied perspective and was met with silence. I asked what evidence there was that perspective works in the way the ancient greeks described and I got silence. There is no evidence for me to refute.
Do you have any evidence that "perspective behaves at large distances" any differently for what you call large distances to what it does over moderate distances?
In the original post I claimed to have proved nothing. I asked what I thought was a quite reasonable question.In case you have forgotten, you claimed my first photo was not to scale, so I obliged and made one to scale:
We can't see the sun, moon or the people on this one, but it's to the best scale that I can manage.
Flat Earth Sun Moon - almost to scale I have drawn in the paths that the light would seem to be required for the people on the ground to see a complete full moon.
The observer under the moon looks
straight up to the Full Moon and the observer where the full moon is rising or setting has to
look horizontally to see the moon.
I have drawn what to me seems to be the paths light would have to take for each observer to see the moon as full.
On top of this is the observation that on the real earth each observer sees almost exactly the same sized moon, but in your model the observer under the moon is about 3,000 miles away, while the other one is around THREE times that distance away - how is it possible for each to see the same sized moon.
Now, your Wiki gives a "sort of" explanations for the sun:
Magnification and Shrinking
Q: If the sun is disappearing to perspective, shouldn't it get smaller as it recedes?
A: The sun remains the same size as it recedes into the distance due to a known magnification effect caused by the intense rays of light passing through the strata of the atmolayer.
Now while I in no way accept that explanation for the sun, it CANNOT be given as a reason for the moon's apparent size staying the same -
for the moon there are no"intense rays of light passing through the strata of the atmolayer."
So I am not claiming to having proved anything. I am asking:
- What are the light paths that allow all observers to see a full moon?
- How does the moon appear (almost exactly) the same size to all observers?