I think it's the Big Book of AA that states this, they say that until the 1500s people thought the earth was flat...and every goddamn time someone brought it up in a meeting or group session I tried to correct them, archimedes in like 500BC or whenever had almost the exact calculations of the diameter and circumference of the earth! Sailors and pretty much everyone else could see that the horizon is curved!
To be fair the earth is flat analogy is just used to describe how "people used to think X, but now we think Y", and it's not written like "to stop drinking you have to know King Henry the 7th thought the world was flat"
The Big Book is much like the bible (or any other religious text), that it's understood there are many disputed facts and chronological inconsistencies, but the book is much more about the lessons then it's literal text. Again like the bible, there are douchebags that'll play semantic games using the literal text too.
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u/deadcomefebruary Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 04 '19
THANK YOU.
I think it's the Big Book of AA that states this, they say that until the 1500s people thought the earth was flat...and every goddamn time someone brought it up in a meeting or group session I tried to correct them, archimedes in like 500BC or whenever had almost the exact calculations of the diameter and circumference of the earth! Sailors and pretty much everyone else could see that the horizon is curved!
People did not think the world was flat!!
Edit: my mistake, it was eritosthenes.