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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8432527" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>But again, the ancient Chinese did conceive of them as objects floating at a vast distance. This is an undeniable fact. You can say they had no real evidence for their theory, but since they had the theory and it was competing with two other different theories, they had to have something that convinced them to support the theory. </p><p></p><p>I also hesitate to accept there being no record of someone else noticing being evidence that no else did notice. Not only is the North-Western World notorious for not acknowledging the accomplishments of other groups (very few people seem to know about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_al-Jazari" target="_blank">Ismail al-Jazari</a> for instance, who invented and built the crankshaft, camshaft, and robots in 1206) but the Mayans and many others with rich histories of astronomy had their records destroyed by invaders. So if records did exist, they were lost.</p><p></p><p>This is not to belittle Galileo. He did discover amazing things that people in his section of the world did not know. But the more I learn of world history, the more skeptical I become of the idea of things the world at large didn't know or suspect at any point in the history of the planet. There are many things we are finding out where known or discovered long before we think they were, by other people around the globe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8432527, member: 6801228"] But again, the ancient Chinese did conceive of them as objects floating at a vast distance. This is an undeniable fact. You can say they had no real evidence for their theory, but since they had the theory and it was competing with two other different theories, they had to have something that convinced them to support the theory. I also hesitate to accept there being no record of someone else noticing being evidence that no else did notice. Not only is the North-Western World notorious for not acknowledging the accomplishments of other groups (very few people seem to know about [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_al-Jazari']Ismail al-Jazari[/URL] for instance, who invented and built the crankshaft, camshaft, and robots in 1206) but the Mayans and many others with rich histories of astronomy had their records destroyed by invaders. So if records did exist, they were lost. This is not to belittle Galileo. He did discover amazing things that people in his section of the world did not know. But the more I learn of world history, the more skeptical I become of the idea of things the world at large didn't know or suspect at any point in the history of the planet. There are many things we are finding out where known or discovered long before we think they were, by other people around the globe. [/QUOTE]
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