136. Solar eclipses have been accurately predicted for thousands of years without the need for the heliocentric model
"Many people think that modern astronomy’s ability to accurately predict lunar and solar eclipses is a result and proof positive of the heliocentric theory of the universe. The fact of the matter however is that eclipses have been accurately predicted by cultures worldwide for thousands of years before the “heliocentric ball-Earth” was even a glimmer in Copernicus’ imagination. Ptolemy in the 1st century A.D. accurately predicted eclipses for six hundred years on the basis of a flat, stationary Earth with equal precision as anyone living today. All the way back in 600 B.C. Thales accurately predicted an eclipse which ended the war between the Medes and Lydians. Eclipses happen regularly with precision in 18 year cycles, so regardless of geocentric or heliocentric, flat or globe Earth cosmologies, eclipses can be accurately calculated independent of such factors."
Another blatant lie from Dubay
The Ptolemaic system could predict lunar eclipses with some success. However prediction of solar eclipse was limited to suggesting that a solar eclipse might take place in a wide area over a range of time. Even its best predictions tended to drift relative to reality and needed to be adjusted from time to time using more observations
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Dubay also mentions Thales prediction in 600BC using a different system. He describes this as an accurate prediction. How accurate was this? Thales predicted the correct year (not month or day) once only. That’s all! Dubay is again shamelessly misrepresenting the facts.
In any case it is rather bizarre that Dubay is invoking the Ptolemaic model of the solar system (Developed in the 2nd century AD not the 1st). This maintains that the Earth is a sphere rather than a flat disc, that the Sun, Moon and planets orbit the Earth rather than circle above it, and that the Moon is orbiting at a distance close to the distance that modern science observes it rather than the 300 miles claimed by flat Earth.
Claiming that the Ptolemaic system’s successful predictions for lunar and solar eclipses is a win for his flat Earth beliefs is beyond idiocy.
The fact is, it is only modern astronomy that can accurately predict solar eclipses
Go on flat earth believers … let us have your predictions for future solar eclipses.
The following links and videos detail the Ptolemaic system.
https://www.britannica.com/science/Ptolemaic-system
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Another blatant lie from Dubay
The Ptolemaic system could predict lunar eclipses with some success. However prediction of solar eclipse was limited to suggesting that a solar eclipse might take place in a wide area over a range of time. Even its best predictions tended to drift relative to reality and needed to be adjusted from time to time using more observations
.
Dubay also mentions Thales prediction in 600BC using a different system. He describes this as an accurate prediction. How accurate was this? Thales predicted the correct year (not month or day) once only. That’s all! Dubay is again shamelessly misrepresenting the facts.
In any case it is rather bizarre that Dubay is invoking the Ptolemaic model of the solar system (Developed in the 2nd century AD not the 1st). This maintains that the Earth is a sphere rather than a flat disc, that the Sun, Moon and planets orbit the Earth rather than circle above it, and that the Moon is orbiting at a distance close to the distance that modern science observes it rather than the 300 miles claimed by flat Earth.
Claiming that the Ptolemaic system’s successful predictions for lunar and solar eclipses is a win for his flat Earth beliefs is beyond idiocy.
The fact is, it is only modern astronomy that can accurately predict solar eclipses
Go on flat earth believers … let us have your predictions for future solar eclipses.
The following links and videos detail the Ptolemaic system.
https://www.britannica.com/science/Ptolemaic-system
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