Flat Earth arguments rest on naive sensory and gravitational misconceptions
Evidence
The arguments put forward as to why the earth cannot be a sphere seem almost touchingly naive to Sophie: it looks flat from the ground, so it is flat. Depictions of the southern hemisphere show people standing on their heads, asking why they don’t fall off the earth. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 51
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Sensory illusions that serve daily life mislead us about cosmic and quantum scales — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 84