Yetos
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Heliocentric system doesn't have much to do, if at all, with earth being a sphere. Earth being round, and Earth not being a center of our solar system, are two different issues.
Church didn't care for first one and nobody was burned as heretic for saying that earth was round. Some believed it was, some didn't.
The second issue was important however, because it degraded the importance of earth and humans, as a pinnacle of god's creation, therefore belonging in center of universe. People were burned in fire for denying it. Copernicus published his works after his death, Galileo barely survives, Giordano Bruno didn't.
Wrong, look below, this is just a tip of iceberg of math needed to calculate what he proposed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
He used math and statistics to prove that earth was a sphere, period. This is exactly how people of high IQ use tools like math and statistics to prove their hypothesis in many scientific fields.
Yetos, don't sell your countryman Eratosthenes short. He was a great scientists.
If he could prove that earth was a sphere and the size of it just from using "three sticks" and no math, he would be a magician or a prophet, but not a smart scientist.
math is a tool of mind,
Gnomon is just ia stick,
he put a vertical stick same time of year same hour in 2 different positions and measure the length of Earth radius aproximately 2% wrong or less according the stadion origin,
the rest are just divisions and multiply,