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Still Waters ♏ Run Deep

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Ellie | 22 | ENFP | Distracted Dreamer
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people today with access to more raw information than any other period: the earth is flat

german artilleryman in 1916, who barely washes his own ass: I need to account for the curvature and rotation of the earth when plotting my firing plans

Eratosthenes, an Egyptian, in 3750 BC when fucking mammoths hadn’t even gone extinct yet: Oh hey I can use these two obelisks to calculate the earth’s entire circumference based on the length of their shadows and the Earth’s curvature. Neat.

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Eratosthenes lived in ~270-200BC but yeah he was a smart cookie who figured out lines of latitude and longitude, essentially

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