Michael Baizerman Author

I have completed the second chapter of my book. This section tells about different approaches to the issue of estimating the Earth's circumference. You can read the first page where I explain how I picked up the medium for the estimation.   If the earth is a globe, its circumference can be roughly determined. The two giants of the ancient world endeavored to carry out this tremendous task. Both of them estimated the angle of elevation of heavenly bodies above the horizon at distant points presumably located on the same meridian in order to reach the measure of one degree. They also assessed the distance between these spots by converting travel days on land (1) or at sea (2) into an accepted standard of length. The fact that each of these estimations held versions proves that the scholars were not happy with their initial scores and, being confronted with sound criticism, had to improve their performance. The degree of uncertainty only grows if we take into account the in...

I'd like to thank all my readers who give me the greatest respect that a writer deserves: to learn his opinion. More than one hundred readers perused my blog last month and my total auditorium has exceeded 500. I'm happy to inform you that I have completed my long-term historic research on the conception of the East on the Latin West throughout the Late Middle Ages. The study has been conducted for six or seven years and its results contain the manuscript which includes dozens of articles. At the current stage, I have started converting the manuscript into my second book. This is time to remind that my first book, Dawn and Sunset: A Tale of the Oldest Cities in the Near East, was published in 2015 as a second edition. It tells the story of the earliest urban communities on earth that mushroomed in Mesopotamia in the course of the fourth and the third millennia BCE. You may view seven chapters of this book on my Author's Page at scriggler.com https://scriggler.com/Profi...