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.