earth cant be flat, that's dumb
Educate yourselfI educated myself, and here is what I found:
A transit with a powerful telescope, combined with observations 91 days apart, observations on the sun and on a horizon star, can show the 93 million mile distance to the sun (plus or minus 10%) by trigonometry. Nothing can refute this, since it can be repeated over and over to give a nearly accurate answer. Using a better telescope, and making similar measurements gives the 93 million miles rather accurately.
Now I'm happy.
Fuck off, using a sextant and plane trigonometry the distance to the Sun is measured at about 3,000 miles.
That's because sextants were never made for this kind of measurement. Give a sextant a powerful telescope, so that it acts like a transit, and you will get a more accurate reading, close to the 93 million miles.
