headshotcatcher said:
And as for your second bit, today's scientific/historical 'Facts' may prove to be outright bullshit in a thousand years (except the history of the 'counted' years (year 0 and up)..
I mean, 500 years ago it was a fact that the world was flat and years ago it was also a fact that everything in the world consisted of any combination of the four elements..
That's what research is for. Yes, current scientific/historical knowledge will probably be quaint and outdated in a few hundred years, but for the moment, it's the closest we can come to fact. Blindly believing something that any number of deluded, anonymous writers contrived thousands of years ago over what the current scientific community takes as fact..... that's what gets to me.
And your part about the flat Earth is pretty much entirely wrong. The Earth was proven to be round over two and a half thousand years ago, and the philosopher who proved it 2200 years ago (Erastothenes then proceeded to calculate the circumference of the Earth to within a ten percent margin. By the Middle Ages, no-one really believed the Earth was flat anymore.
The part about the four elements is true, I concede you that, but from the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance onwards alchemy gradually gave way to natural science founded on empirical principles. And by the eighteenth century at the latest, the four elements theory had been soundly proven wrong.
Sorry for the sort-of rant, but, well..... case in point.