Could I add an important item to the "List Of Things That Don't Exist To Round Earthers"?
The need to invent totally farcical explanations for so many simply observations.
Sunrises, sunsets and lunar phases might be a few things that everyone sees, yet flat earthers still cannot explain.
To be fair, Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation seemed pretty farcical at first as did some of his other theories, some of which did turn out to be farcical.
The French were loathe to accept Newton's ideas (what with
Newton being English) and Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) helped to spread Newton's theories in England. This probably did not go down too well in France, with Voltaire being a French exile!
But I fail to see the why my claim about the "need to invent totally farcical explanations for so many simply observations" is at all invalidated by any of this.
Gravitation is certainly well supported by a large amount of experimental work and no-one casts serious doubt on Newton's laws of motion.
These laws are so accurate that the precession of the orbits of the planets was calculated and matched quite closely with measured values, with the only significant deviation being
43 arc seconds per century for the orbit of Mercury.
It took Einstein's GR to show the reason for this.
Newton's ideas about light being "corpuscles" were not accepted at the time when the wave-theory was gaining support but, of course, it turns out that both are true.
And some of the theories regarding dark energy and big bang cosmology seem kind of farcical and may turn out to be so in the end. No?
Possibly, but
none of those are relevant to the earth being a Globe. All of dark matter, dark energy and big bang cosmology was only proposed in the 20th century after Hubble (astronomer, not telescope).
The Globe has been the accepted shape of the earth, at least in Western culture from 300 to 500 BC and in Middle Eastern culture from early in the first millenium AD.
There is no evidence that there was significant support for a flat earth in Europe at any time in the
Common Era (AD).
Of course, the
Geocentric Globe was accepted till after the time of Copernicus, when the
Heliocentric Globe gradually "took over".
In the Islamic world certainly till well into the second millennium AD the Globe was certainly the accepted model, though that may have changed around the time of the Crusades.
All of astronomy from the early Greeks and Ptolemy to Copernicus, Tycho Brahe and Kepler to the modern day is based on and only fits the
Globe earth.