Billy Pettit real disappointment

[Fred Cisin]

> > PS. The world was a whole lot smaller then too, ask Atlas about that
> > some time.
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> No it wasn't.  Ask Eratosthenes.  8-)
> Eratosthenes and Archimedes lived at the same time.  The one who had
> drastically underestimated the size of the Earth was Pythagoras, 300
> years earlier.

. . . and again by Columbus.  Everyone who wasn't calling 976 psychic
lines knew that the earth was round, and how large it was, and therefore
why WEST was not a practical direction to go to get to the indies.
Columbus had a crackpot idea that the earth was about 1/3 its present
size, resulting in him finding some land in the way.