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Originally Posted by freebeard
Okay, but I still don't know why the idea has re-emerged today.
Perhaps I should re-read Hamlet's Mill, it's been a few decades.
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All they'd need to do is,borrow a pair of binoculars and go to the coast.Watching any ship sailing towards the horizon would reveal the observation of the ship disappearing,beginning at the waterline,and progressing up the architecture,until the highest point on the vessel finally passed from view.This could only be an artifact of a spherical Earth,as it happens in all directions of travel away from the observer.