Carl Sagan: How the circumference of the Earth was calculated using only sticks, eyes, feet, and brains

…and oral traditions, medicine people, etc. Pre-science, pretty much everything we did was a mishmash of confirmation bias, superstition, post-hoc rationalization, and ideology. That’s… still how we do almost everything but at least we also have science now. :smile:

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