When my penguin bedside lamp broke and I chose one of those globes that shows physical features when off but political when illuminated as a replacement, it was clearly not a surprise to me that the world was round.
Indeed, I think I'd already been wondering why some of the larger maps in the atlas were made out of funny-shaped bits by that point. It's also actually pretty hard to see a ship disappear over the horizon without putting two and two together. (I've often wondered how people went millennia without noticing something fishy there; probably by not understanding optics.) I was reading Patrick Moore books by the age of six or seven.
So… I've spent my life immersed in the notion of the world's roundness. If I ever thought differently it would have to have been before the age of three.
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Date: 2008-02-15 06:14 pm (UTC)Indeed, I think I'd already been wondering why some of the larger maps in the atlas were made out of funny-shaped bits by that point. It's also actually pretty hard to see a ship disappear over the horizon without putting two and two together. (I've often wondered how people went millennia without noticing something fishy there; probably by not understanding optics.) I was reading Patrick Moore books by the age of six or seven.
So… I've spent my life immersed in the notion of the world's roundness. If I ever thought differently it would have to have been before the age of three.