What is it about this flat-earthism VIRUS that dominates the human brain.

If I let a cup fall from my hand it falls to the ground.
The cups NEVER float, fall upwards or sideways, always downwards. We HUMANS CALL the cause of this falling GRAVITY.

Now you flat earthers can deny this 'gravity' exists, but for me and the rest of us it does.

Your pathetic attempts to defend a flat earth involves TOTALLY IGNORING the essence of my post and those of others that credits GOD with this CAUSE whatever it is.

It is like debating with programmed zombies.

We can see with our own eyes that the earth is not a ball. There's no curve, even when we stand on a high viewpoint. No curve at all.

And Scripture says that that there are waters above the firmament, and that the stars are in the firmament. The Ancient Hebrews believed in a flat earth, based on Sacred Scripture. How did your beloved Giovanni Cassini view Sacred Scripture, in this regard? Would Cassini's work have ever gained momentum if not for the Enlightenment and French Revolution?

Oh Meg, oh Meg, how you have been infected by this flat-Earth virus. God made the world so big that no little man or woman, looking even from the highest point can see its curvature. Only if one is about 50,000 feet high will the curvature be pronounced enough to see.
 
 What is all this water here or there got to do with a flat earth or a global Earth. A Global Earth has these same waters above as a flat earth could have. So stop thinking and posting that a flat-earth is the only interpretation of waters above. Nor does it matter WHO once thought the earth was flat, thinking it is and insisting it is does not make it so.
 
 And please do not try to paste Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712 with the same brush as the heliocentrists Newton and the Freemasons. Cassini was God's astronomer, for God never leaves us ignorant. Cassini was a loyal son of the Catholic Church. He had, we read, the charity and kindness of a saint. His respect for his contemporaries and their work was exemplary, and the modesty of his own reached ‘miraculous proportions.’ His humility caused him to avoid adulation and he presented his findings with the least fuss and sought no personal honours. He, and his son and grandson were the LAST OF THE GREAT CATHOLIC GEOCENTRISTS.

Voltare hated Cassini for he falsified the astronomy of Kepler used by Newton to fool the world. Cassini was Rome's surveyor before going to King Louis XIV and providing the astronomy for the priests who converted the far east. He falsified Newton's shape for the earth in the field of goedesy, a science none of you flat-earthers know anything about.He compiled a history of astronomy up to his time. In it he wrote:

 "Aristorus, contemporary of Eudoxius (390-337BC), and disciple like him of Plato, used Astronomy to perfect the sciences of physics and geography. By the observations of the astronomers he determined the figure and the size of the Earth. He demonstrated that it was spherical by the roundness of its shadow, which appears on the disc of the Moon during eclipses, and by the unequal height of the meridians that differ as one approaches or goes away from the Poles. ..."
 
 ."Under the reign of this wise Emperor Augustus (63B-14AD), astronomy began to take on a new look. For Ptolemy, who could be called the restorer of this science, took advantage of the lights of those who had gone before, and joined to his own particular observations those of Hipparcus, of Timocharis and of the Babylonians. He made of these a complete body of science of the stars in an excellent book entitled ‘The Great Composition’, which includes theory and tables charting the movements of the Sun, of the Moon, of the other planets, and of the fixed stars. Geography owes as much to him as astronomy for he also made a description of the earthly globe, much more ample and exact than all the others that had been made up until then; having reduced the distances of all the places on Earth to degrees and to minutes, following the method that had been decided upon by Possidonius, he disposed these same places on the geographic tables according to the difference of their longitude and latitude, in the same way that he had following Hipparcus arranged the fixed stars...."

It seems the GLOBE OF EARTH has been around in astronomy for a long long time.  

What is it about this flat-earthism VIRUS that dominates the human brain.

If I let a cup fall from my hand it falls to the ground.
The cups NEVER float, fall upwards or sideways, always downwards. We HUMANS CALL the cause of this falling GRAVITY.

Now you flat earthers can deny this 'gravity' exists, but for me and the rest of us it does.

Your pathetic attempts to defend a flat earth involves TOTALLY IGNORING the essence of my post and those of others that credits GOD with this CAUSE whatever it is.

It is like debating with programmed zombies.

If I drop a cup and a feather, both land at the same time.

Domenico Cassini's anti-heliocentric work has been totally ignored since the enlightenment and the French revolution. Worse than that, he is now portrayed as a hiding heliopcentrist.
 
‘Cassini was renowned for his skills as an observational astronomer, which led him to many important discoveries. He was also extremely conservative in his approach to the more theoretical aspects of astronomy, and this conservatism led him frequently to propound the incorrect view. He refused to accept the Copernican cosmological model and rejected the concept of a finite speed of light (although its proof was demonstrated by Olaus Rōmer using Cassini’s own data; it is likely that Cassini considered the possibility even prior to Rōmer’s work). He also opposed a theory of universal gravitation and insisted (despite critical disagreement by Christian Huygens and Isaac Newton) that the Earth was flattened at the equator rather than at the poles. Despite these errors in judgement Cassini earned a well-deserved reputation as one of the finest astronomers of his day.[1]

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[1]David Abbot: Astronomers, The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, 1984, pp.34-35.

‘For instance, there was the case of the Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. When Cassini was appointed lecturer in astronomy at the University of Bologna, in 1650, he found that he had to teach the Ptolemaic system, though by then it was also permissible to teach Copernicanism as a hypothesis. Not, of course, that Cassini had any doubts about the truth of the matter. He was an expert observer, and it was he who made the first reasonably accurate measurement of the distance between the Earth and the Sun. The fact that men such as Cassini could talk openly about the movement of the Earth – and in Italy, less than ten years after Galileo’s death – is an indication that the scientific influence of the Church was very much on the downgrade.’[1]

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[1]Patrick Moore: Watchers of the Stars, Michael Joseph Books, 1974, p.125.

‘Giovanni Cassini was an astronomer of the 17^th century. He found several new moons going around Saturn while working for his immovable pope. By combining the data from St Peter’s meridian with his own telescopic observations he was able to predict accurate orbits for Mars and Venus. He had used mathematical techniques that assumed the planets and the Earth were moving in elliptical orbits about the sun. But he never dared to give an opinion on the Earth’s immobility. Perhaps he didn’t want to have to make a public confession of his errors.’[1]

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[1]Robert Lomas: The Invisible College, Headline, 2002, p.19.

BULL. Note Lomas, the author of above piece of revisionism, has Cassini working for ‘his immovable pope,’. Then he has Cassini moving the Earth with ‘elliptical orbits’ if we don’t mind.