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I believe that is mostly due to social contagion, top down insanity if you will.

I doubt it. The brilliance of that quote is that a man will naturally think clearly, but it is the suggestions of others that makes him insane.

It's a literal list of items and doesn't include religion...

You ooze leftist reading intoism.

Heliocentrism is a religion.

Atheism is antisemitism. Typical cracker kraut behavior.

In his observation he made a couple presumptions. First, he presumed that the earth was round. Because of this presumption, he had to presume that the sun's rays were reaching the earth in parallel fashion for the behavior of shadows to be accurate. His conclusion looked like this.

https://files.catbox.moe/6k92sk.png

This is odd because nobody ever gives a reason why he should have presumed the earth was round in the first place, given it was 240 BC, prior to his observation of shadows. The oddest part being, he would have seen clouds all his life that looked like this.

https://files.catbox.moe/likxfy.webp

In 240 BC, why would any reasonable person see clouds that look like this their entire life, then presume that the sun's rays are reaching the entire earth in parallel fashion?

So let's take the objective, observable, and repeatable data that Eratosthenes would have objectively seen, crepuscular rays, and make the necessary presumptions we need for the behavior of shadows to be accurate.

Crepuscular sun rays from behind clouds would suggest a smaller local Sun. With a smaller local Sun, the behavior of the shadows can be reproduced on a flat Earth. That conclusion would look like this.

https://files.catbox.moe/e8kule.png

Now I know that you globs like to cry "illusion" and "the sun rays really are parallel, but they just appear to be crepuscular." After all, Einstein told us all about reality and how it's all a "persistent illusion." But we are talking about 240 B.C. They didn't have jewish "scientists" lying to them about rockets in space yet. Their entire reality is based on their terrestrial observations. He would have saw the same thing that we see today. Crepuscular rays. Sure, modern science can argue things are "illusions." And I can argue that they're not. The following is an example.

The distance of the sun from the earth to scale.
https://files.catbox.moe/hfaki9.jpg

Now visualize that distance and convince yourself that the sun can create this hotspot with parallel rays.
https://files.catbox.moe/q4zj4v.png

Now attempt to visualize parallel rays creating the illusion of crepuscular rays in this picture.
https://files.catbox.moe/5ffm86.jpg

I can make an argument against the claim of illusion but my point in this post is that they are described as illusions for a reason. An illusion is something that appears like one thing, but is something else in reality. Without the explanation of the illusion, you would have no reason to believe it was an illusion. So if atmospheric refraction creating crepuscular rays is an illusion, and we're told that in reality the sun's rays are parallel, but the illusion is that they appear crepuscular, then Eratosthenes should have observed them and presumed that the sun was small and local because he personally had no reason to presume crepuscular rays were an illusion and he should have came to the conclusion that the earth was flat.

Sure, you could argue that the world would proved him wrong years later, but I'm asking about Eratosthenes, in 240 BC, with the information he had available to him, and whether or not you find his conclusion reasonable given his circumstances.

With all this being said, Even if we give him the benefit of the doubt with his presumption that the earth was round in the first place, this would indeed require that the sun's rays are parallel, but modern science can't even keep consistent with that claim when they try to explain an eclipse.

https://files.catbox.moe/m0j93u.png

No u

Heliocentrists are religious zealots without realizing they are.

It's frightening how similar heliocentrists act to other leftists in regards to jumping through mental hoops.

Indeed. This is the work of the Jesuits, Masons and of course Kikes.