If Domenico was using the stars to measure, then he found the curvature of the Firmament, not the earth.
Didn't that occur to you?
The Firmament is curved like an upsides down bowl over the flat plane of earth.
Even Sungenis's movie has an illustration of a microwave star map that shows the stars embedded in concentric domes.
Land surveyors show no curvature of earth whatsoever at any time. And all attest to this truth.
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Land surveyors clearly do show the curvature of the earth as is evidenced for example in the curving lines of latitude when they are the centerline of streets or national boundaries. Many streets in the continental USA are centered on such curving lines but the streets appear to be straight in the short view of local appearance. Baseline in San Bernardino, CA, is one example.
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The border between the USA and Canada is an obvious case. It runs along the 49th parallel from British Colombia to Manitoba on the Canada side, and from Washington State to North Dakota on the States' side. If you only consider what you can see first hand at short range, it appears straight, like here:
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Or even here (below) as far as the eye can see it appears straight:
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HOWEVER, when you follow the line as seen below, the curvature of the earth is apparent immediately.
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The line of the 49th parallel curves, between Alberta/Saskatchewan and Montana, and between Manitoba and North Dakota:
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It curves even though it runs due east and west.
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Likewise, the border between Montana and Wyoming curves.
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Likewise, the border between North and South Dakota curves, and so on.
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These appear to be straight lines when viewed from the ground but that's only because our range of view is too limited.
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If we stand on the ground our horizon is about as far as any two letters in any of the States' names on this map, which is not far enough to see the curve from the ground.
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But it shows up on a map.
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This map, above, is not a map used or made using Plane Surveying, which is all that your local surveyor uses to check your real estate borders. This map is made using Geodetic Surveying, which deals with land over large distances -- distances large enough to be directly affected by the curvature of the earth.
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The article below, from a surveying manual site, mentions and defines Geodetic Surveying but does not cover it, since it is beyond the scope of the manual. Like I said, most surveying does not have to deal with Geodetic Surveying.
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GEODETIC SURVEYING
GEODETIC SURVEYING is a process of surveying in which the shape and size of the earth are considered. This type of survey is suited for large areas and long lines and is used to find the precise location of basic points needed for establishing control for other surveys. In geodetic surveys, the stations are normally long distances apart, and more precise instruments and surveying methods are required for this type of surveying than for plane surveying..The shape of the earth is thought of as a spheroid, although in a technical sense, it is not really a spheroid. In 1924, the convention of the International Geodetic and Geophysical Union adopted 41,852,960 ft as the diameter of the earth at the equator and 41,711,940 ft as the diameter at its polar axis. The equatorial diameter was computed on the assumption that the flattening of the earth caused by gravitational attraction is exactly 1/297. Therefore, distances measured on or near the surface of the earth are not along straight lines or planes, but on a curved surface. Hence, in the computation of distances in geodetic surveys, allowances are made for the earth’s minor and major diameters from which a spheroid of reference is developed. The position of each geodetic station is related to this spheroid. The positions are expressed as latitudes (angles north or south of the Equator) and longitudes (angles east or west of a prime meridian) or as northings and castings on a rectangular grid..The methods used in geodetic surveying are beyond the scope of this training manual..
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When the article mentions "the spheroid" they are referring to a standard term in current use for the purpose of GPS systems for example, in which an idealized geometric spheroid or ellipsoid is imagined at or near the earth's surface, a spheroid or ellipsoid which is established as a datum reference and from which measurements are taken. In other words, the shape of the earth is APPROXIMATED as a "spheroid" or "ellipsoid" for use in practical calculations, even though the earth is not technically a spheroid. The earth is generally speaking spheroidal or ellipsoidal in shape even though it is not precisely a spheroid or ellipsoid.
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In application, the elevation of any object on the earth's surface or any point on the ground can be defined by its distance up or down from the ellipsoid. When you use your GPS in your car, for example, your elevation is calculated based on your distance vertically, away from the ellipsoid, which can be positive or negative. If you are below the ellipsoid it is negative, and if you are above the ellipsoid it is positive. Most tall mountains have summits above the ellipsoid, and points at the bottom of the ocean are below the ellipsoid. As shown in the diagram below, the ellipsoid is one and the same as the surface of the ocean, commonly referred to as "mean sea level." "The ellipsoid" over dry land surfaces is a somewhat arbitrary theoretical egg-shaped geometrical shape.
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