If You Were Suddenly Transported To Ancient Greece How Would You Convince A Rational Person That The Earth Goes Around The Sun Despite How It Appears?
A lot harder than it sounds
I wanted the purpose of this question to be the idea that we can only truly know what we can explain to others. In this experiment you cannot bring anything from the present day to further your arguments.
How would you go about it? (assume that your friends in Ancient Greece have read Aristotle and are au fait with heliocentrism)
A tough one for a Monday afternoon - or morning/evening wherever you are in the world!
Steem on!
I can't bring anything from present but I can make it, right? I think I'll also show them like what Galileo did. I'll build a telescope. 😃
That would would be a very clever idea @steemangel :))
Hahaha. Thank you. I thought, I thought too simple.
You just need to be clever enough to escape all that flagging now ... I know that feeling - I've seen everything on here!!
Nah. I don't need it. Don't pay attention to it. It'll just make him feel good about what he's doing. I'm fine.
That's the hunter spirit @steemangel :) Die hard the hunter!!
Thank you @mindhunter!
Hang tough @steemangel!!
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Considering much of early Greek knowledge was disseminated through mythology. I would invoke a stories of Helios. It would describe some epic battle between the Titans and the Gods where the Titan Helios triumphs to make everything revolve around the sun. I am of course convincing the "hoi polloi". Once you get the masses to believe something the academics would follow in a mad pursuit to disprove the common knowledge (Aristotle knew to start with the common beliefs of things). Eventually, truth prevails and sufficient dialogue has been established on the subject! ;)
Interesting proposition. Like another commenter, I would try to build a telescope to the skies and get down to a more scientific approach :)