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> Did the builders knew the earth was round? Yes. This has been known since ancient greek times, and Aristotle calculated the size reasonably well. Maybe not every labourer knew or cared but the architects almost certainly did
Eratosthenes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_circumference#Eratos... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes#Measurement_of_Ea...
From wikipedia, the list of St Michael churches:
St. Michael's Church (disambiguation)
Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel (es), San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato Mexico World Heritage Site
Sacra di San Michele (Saint Michael's Abbey), near Turin, Italy
Pfarrei Brixen St. Michael with the White Tower, Brixen, Italy
Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula, in Brussels, Belgium
Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy, France – a World Heritage Site
St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica (Toronto), Canada
St. Michael's Cathedral (Izhevsk), Russia
St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao, China
Chudov Monastery in the Moscow Kremlin
Cathedral of the Archangel in the Moscow Kremlin – a World Heritage Site
Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo, Gargano, Italy – a World Heritage Site
St Michael's Mount, Cornwall, UK
St. Michael, Minnesota
St. Michael's Basilica, Miramichi, Canada
Skellig Michael, off the Irish west coast – a World Heritage Site
St Michael's Cathedral, Coventry, UK
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Kyiv, Ukraine
St. Michael's Church, Vienna in Vienna, Austria
Tayabas Basilica, Tayabas, Quezon, Philippines
St. Michael's Church, Berlin, Germany
San Miguel Church (Manila), Philippines
St. Michael's Jesuit church, Munich, Germany
St. Michael's Cathedral, Belgrade in Belgrade, Serbia
Cathedral of St. Michael the Archangel in Gamu, Isabela, Philippines
Mission San Miguel Arcángel, San Miguel, California, United States, one of the California Missions
St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford, UK
St. Michael's Roman Catholic church, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
St. Michael's Church, Mumbai, India
Church of St. Michael, Štip, Republic of North Macedonia
St Michael and All Angels Church, Polwatte
St Michael's Church, Churchill, UK
San Miguel Arcangel Church, Marilao, Bulacan, Philippines
San Miguel Arcangel Church, San Miguel, Bulacan, Philippines
St Michael the Archangel, Llanyblodwel, EnglandConsidering the birthday paradox, I get 600! = 1265572316225430742541867824515082929767140386227466076818782885852814082314735123781780279561957107476520853259806022480324090378216476943079502557805427190628338764382608844812462648833262360837616408122117117943988584025781873291903788960371918674394336306213959378447392223185278254761977172388925247687118600017469793454911284566259618230828039061518469192444621555258…
Given a preferred predetermined position, navigating to the desired latitude would have been easy enough for the time, getting to a spot with the correct longitude is a tricky feat prior to accurate clocks.
Having found such a location there's no apriori guarantee that site is ideal for a large stone building which would lead to some fudging about to find a near althernative site along a corridor.
There's some work to be done upon the order in which these buildings went up and on the locations themselves; for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael's_Mount
dates as a monastic site back to the 8th Century or so and has very little (almost none) play in position .. it's situated on a rocky outcrop in a strong tidal zone.
All of which leaves questions such as when a decision might first have been made to infill later buildings to match a line through which earlier buildings on which projection.
One might begin to calculate the odds of seven cathedrals aligning perfectly in a straight line purely as a result of chance.
Are they aligned because they are famous, or are they famous because they are aligned? Or are they aligned because if I pick 7 famous monuments aligned I can draw a line, look over my shoulder and say "ho look, if we draw a line it match!" From wikipedia, the list of St Michael churches: St. Michael's Church (disambiguation) Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel (es), San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato Mexico World Heritag…
> Certainly 7 cathedrals are too many to be a coincidence With the number of cathedrals in Europe I don't really think this is supported.
> Certainly 7 cathedrals are too many to be a coincidence With the number of cathedrals in Europe I don't really think this is supported.
If they really were cathedrals, a coincidence would have been extraordinary.