August 27, 2012 at 2:31 pm Report abuse Bill T. OK, I'll play,»... they just keep running into trouble about 2012 years ago...», cite just ONE peer reviewed paper indicating that the apparent positions of stars in the sky are not calculable past the year 0 C.E. (your discussion is garbled but this appears to be your claim). (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
In 1728, English physicist James Bradley based his calculations on the change in the apparent position of the stars due Earth's travels around the sun. (space.com)
Three hundred years later, Aristotle was the first known person to use observational data, the changing of position of stars due to traveling south, to support the round earth hypothesis. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)