7 sentences with “inaccurate”

Although it proved to be inaccurate, the idea of the four elements as essential elements of nature and health remained the main explanation for many centuries.

Euclid is one of those relatively few ancient thinkers who actually "got it right" in the sense that none of his major assertions were later proved to be inaccurate.

Despite these advances, European understanding of geography remained very shaky. From 1400 onwards, Europeans had a terribly inaccurate knowledge of the rest of the world. Of course, they knew nothing about the Americas.

The contemporary North American perception of slave life, that of incredibly difficult but not always lethal working conditions, is largely inaccurate because only a small minority of slaves were ever sent to North America.

Early gunpowder weapons were ridiculously inaccurate and dangerous (to the user) by later standards - they exploded frequently, were highly inaccurate and took a long time to reload. However, they were also lethal and relatively easy to use.

Columbus himself had completely inaccurate beliefs about the distance between Europe and Asia - he based his geography on an ancient (and completely inaccurate) account by the Greek philosopher Ptolemy and thought that Asia was not far west of Europe.

There are bugs that "see" by sound. The verb "see" is inaccurate but not entirely: light does not partake of this bat and dolphin sense, echolocation, but nevertheless its users achieve as accurate, thorough, three-dimensional and coherent a sonic representation of things as their sight gives man. And what can the human bug gain from this - a new artificial sense to add to its five natural ones? Reopen the windows of the world to the blind?