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I really find it most odd that flat-earthers who are eager to criticize Pythagoras, Newton, Copernicus and others because they followed the ideas of pagan Egyptians, Greeks, Romans or Babylonians, turn around and hang onto other fantastic doctrines of the ancients. Maybe it's a matter of
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From an arched iron ceiling with stars suspended by cables, to an immense dome forged by the hand of Merodach out of the hardest metal, perhaps brass, and resting on a wall surrounding the (flat?!) earth, they don't sound much different from flat-earthers!
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The notion that the sky was a vast solid dome seems to have been common among the ancient peoples whose ideas of cosmology have come down to us. Thus the Egyptians conceived the heavens to be an arched iron ceiling from which the stars were suspended by means of cables (Chabas, LÆAntiquiteÆ historique, Paris, 1873, pp. 64-67). Likewise to the mind of the Babylonians the sky was an immense dome, forged out of the hardest metal by the hand of Merodach (Marduk) and resting on a wall surrounding the earth (Jensen, Die Kosmologie der Babylonier, Strasburg, 1890, pp. 253, 260). According to the notion prevalent among the Greeks and Romans, the sky was a great vault of crystal to which the fixed stars were attached, though by some it was held to be of iron or brass.
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