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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Latitude and longitude - please enlighten me
« on: June 22, 2020, 04:40:11 PM »
"I think it's because latitude/longitude have just become forever associated with the globe and that's what's causing the problem for those who don't believe in the globe."
You've answered your own question there. Plane measurements associated with a globe through spherical calculations . That's the objection.
From your OP.
"Fundamentally (if you live in the northern hemisphere), your latitude is easily determined. It's simply the altitude of Polaris from your location. It's not an absolute value in miles, km or light years, because to determine that you'd need to know how far away Polaris is and in times past, that wasn't possible to determine. What we do instead is measure the angle from the horizon to the star, because that's easily done and doesn't require you to know any distances."
Point 1 . You assume Polaris is known to be a vast distance and point 2 - you assume that in past times the distance to Polaris wasn't possible to measure .
See Brahe's model for the distance to the stars for one example and I'm sure triangulation of distance has been around for a long time .
Point 3. We do not measure elevation of Polaris from the horizon - we measure elevation from the horizontal plane
If you make a post containing assumptions you are confusing the issue.
You've answered your own question there. Plane measurements associated with a globe through spherical calculations . That's the objection.
From your OP.
"Fundamentally (if you live in the northern hemisphere), your latitude is easily determined. It's simply the altitude of Polaris from your location. It's not an absolute value in miles, km or light years, because to determine that you'd need to know how far away Polaris is and in times past, that wasn't possible to determine. What we do instead is measure the angle from the horizon to the star, because that's easily done and doesn't require you to know any distances."
Point 1 . You assume Polaris is known to be a vast distance and point 2 - you assume that in past times the distance to Polaris wasn't possible to measure .
See Brahe's model for the distance to the stars for one example and I'm sure triangulation of distance has been around for a long time .
Point 3. We do not measure elevation of Polaris from the horizon - we measure elevation from the horizontal plane
If you make a post containing assumptions you are confusing the issue.