Intellectual Reference Point Restoration
Topic: “Sphericity”
💬 Quote Library — containing “Sphericity”
📖 Excerpts Library
The Sphere of Earth as Seen from Space
The title Whole Earth Catalog came from a previous project by Stewart Brand. In 1966, he initiated a public campaign to have NASA release the then-rumored satellite photo of the sphere of Earth as seen from space, one of the...
Source: Whole Earth Catalog
It Is Probably a Sphere
Before any celestial distances or sizes could be calculated, the ancient Greeks first had to establish that the Earth is a sphere. This view gained acceptance in ancient Greece as philosophers became familiar with the notion that ships gradually disappear...
Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh
Earth Had to Be a Sphere
It is not so much that certain educated men had not already theorized that Earth was round, but that with the return of the first ship Victoria the expedition’s wealthy financial backers had visual evidence that ships could circumnavigate the...
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
All of a Sudden, Proved to Be a Sphere
The first of these schemes derives from the fact that the generally accepted "flat earth" was, all of a sudden, proved to be a sphere by the voyage of Magellan's ships around the world.
Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty
Somehow Glued to It by Gravity
While almost everyone is taught that the Earth is a sphere with all of us somehow glued to it by gravity, the reality of our circumstance did not really begin to sink in until the famous frame-filling Apollo photograph of...
Source: Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
🎼 Song Excerpts
If You Go Straight Long Enough You’ll End Up Where You Were
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were.
Source: 3rd Planet by Modest Mouse
Research and Find Out the Root of the Truth That You Seek Of
The Earth was flat, if you went too far, you would fall off - Now the Earth is round, if the shape change again, everybody woulda start laugh - The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of - And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of
Source: Patience by Nas & Damian Marley
🧵 Narrative Threads containing “Sphericity”
We Just Want To Dance Here, Someone Stole the Stage
We’re seeing things in a different way and God knows it ain’t his.