Re: Conservapedia: The study of rocks is called "geometry"

Bobby Bryant wrote:
In article <7CkJ4YDcjDuGFwE+@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ernest Major <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk> writes:
In message <46b83223$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Furnace <fire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
http://www.conservapedia.com/Earth

The Earth is the only known planet in our Solar System which can support
life. It contains water, reasonable levels of oxygen, and a stable
temperature range. Geometrically speaking, Earth is the largest of the
terrestrial (rocky) planets in the solar system.
That text does not justify the subject headline. Why the words
"geometrically speaking" are included is non-obvious, but one would
presume that they are reference to the shape (volume? diameter?) of
the planet.

The term 'geo-metry' literally means "Earth-measuring".

However, though that reflects the origin of the field of geometry, the
term is no longer used in that sense. (Or at any rate, I've never run
across it in that sense before.)


Right, the term 'geometry' pretty much means the field of mathematics that was developed to help measure the Earth. Nowadays the field of 'measuring the earth' is either one or both of 'survey' and 'geodesy' (both of which use geometry, trig and calculus).

It's clear the authors of the article have no idea what they are talking about. Is anyone surprised?

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