Cognitive load

[Keith Martin]

On 23 Apr 2017, at 15:14, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:

> Until about 1600 is was a "well-known fact" that the world was flat

Heh. Nice analogy.
Except that even this fact itself isn't true! Most educated people much 
further back than that believed that the Earth was round. Copernicus 
(1473-1543) didn't cause consternation through refuting the flatness of 
the world, he proposed that the world revolved around the sun rather 
than the other way around. And this wasn't the first time for that 
concept: Aristarchus of Samos (approx 310-230 BC) originally presented 
the heliocentric concept, which relies inherently on the Earth being a 
sphere. In fact (uh-oh! ;) the flat-Earth idea has been only patchily 
believed for far longer than people generally realise.
Which makes it even more mind-numbingly strange that people think this 
today. But then, who in their right mind would look to a basketball 
player for scientific information?

:D

k


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