Genetic Variation (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, October 02, 2010, 04:38 (5146 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

So, they had no transits at the time Stonehenge and the related monuments were built, yet the monuments for a series of isosceles triangles that "point" to the next site. Many are 100 miles or more away, but GPS co-ordinates show all are accurate to within 100 metres. How do you make a straight line on the ground for over 100 miles without trig and celestial navigation (which supposedly were developed much later according to the modern historical paradigm)?-Well... I know you probably think me boring and predictable, but...-What evidence do you have that those builders didn't know trig? Greek philosophers with the aid of a simple tool called a gnomon (not the sundial version but a stick with a piece of string) used this tool--attributed to Egyptians and Babylonians. One of my favorite mathematicians, Eratosthenes accurately surmised that the world was spherical and calculated the circumference to within 10% accuracy. In Euclid's Elements, he was the first to solidify within the notion of epistemological foundationalism geometry--but many of the ideas he talked about are universal in nature--nearly every known civilization has engaged in the study of geometry. Here you engage in a little bit of your own shortchanging of the ancients. I would say that the structures themselves prove the point that they knew more trig than is credited to them. -History remembers the winners, or at least the first popular author to codify it.

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