Warwick Wrote:
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> Jon Ellison Wrote:
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> > Origyptian Wrote:
> >
> > > How did they determine what a "right angle" is?
> > > And how does that reveal "North" to them?
> >
> > How did they know that they were living on a sphere?
>
>
> I don't know that they did

Then on what basis would they know about the methods Dash proposed, since his method presumes knowledge of spheres, orbits, polar axes, etc.?




> Have you done any research on the Ancient
> Egyptians at all?
>
> I already suggested to Origyptian that a
> discussion of AE Cosmology would be best served on
> a new thread.

Respectfully, that's a deflection from the main questions about how the Egyptians knew enough about the Earth's shape, orbit, axis tilt, and revoluation around the Sun to be able to even know about the cardinal points at all, let alone calculate where they are per Dash's "obvious" and "simple extrapolation" method.



> You guys can't seem to stick to the topic of a given thread.

Excuse me? We were on the topic of Trog's OP about Dash's article in which he seems to credit the 3rd millennium BC Egypt with this knowledge. We are simply probing whether there is any evidence that they AE actually did have such knowledge. Dash seems to think there isn't really any evidence they did have that knowledge but he still believes they were capable of doing such a thing, apparently simply on the basis that such a method has an "appeal".

What topic were you on?