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Re: How Convincing is a Lunar Eclipse for Proving the Earth is a Sphere?
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2021 Feb 11, 05:56 -0800
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2021 Feb 11, 05:56 -0800
Dave Pike wrote:
"Aristotle used the shadow of the Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse as a further argument that the Earth is a sphere."
What other explanation for the curved shadow on the Moon can you think of?
