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.
A sextant is a doubly reflecting navigation instrument used to measure the angle between any two visible objects.
How do you get distance if you only have the angle? Can you show us the math behind this?