When the map was redrawn to eliminate this error, all of the longitude errors in the map were essentially eliminated. This exact mistake by made by Eratosthenes (276 BC to 194 BC). The Piri map is based on an overestimate of 4.5% in the circumference of the Earth.
This confirms that the original maps go back to the time of Alexander. The center of the map is the intersection of the meridian of Alexandria (a north/south line running through Alexandria in Egypt) and the Tropic of Cancer. It could not be reliably determined in western civilization until the invention in the late 1700s of clocks that remained accurate during sea voyages. But latitude, the extent to which one is east or west of some north-south line on a map, requires advanced technology, particularly at sea. Latitude, the extent to which one is north or south on the globe, can be measured relatively easily, such as by measuring the angles above the horizon of astronomical objects. Even more amazing, the map shows South America and Africa in correct relative longitude. The map uses a sophisticated understanding of the spherical trigonometry of map projections. Piri stated that he based his map on 20 older maps, including 8 from the time of Alexander the Great. The book begins with the discovery, in 1929, of a map created in 1513 by a Turkish Admiral known to us as Piri Re’is. As the preface begins, “This book contains the story of the discovery of the first hard evidence that advanced people preceded all the peoples now known to history.” The book is Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, by Charles Hapgood. To insist that the human brain, with technology so fantastic we cannot begin to comprehend how it works, “evolved” from a Darwinian process of keeping the best mistakes is to me the apex of stupidity, the most pathetically sad example of deliberate blindness to the facts, and the most cowardly acquiescence to the status quo.Īnd so it was with delight that I stumbled upon a book overturning, with hard evidence and detailed scientific analysis, the accepted history of civilization. Their inability to recognize new truths is seen most clearly in their refusal to admit Darwinism is a failed theory, that it cannot possibly account for the technology and complexity of life.
I fight against the misconception that science is contrary to God, against the dogma handed us by pompous bullying professors who never venture outside the opinions of their colleagues.
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