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As a scientist with college degree in Astronomy, minor in Physics and Mathematics, I was appalled to find folks telling outright falsities and presenting bad science to bolster suspicion of our known accepted reality - that the Earth is a beautiful blue globe.

This blog clearly shows scientific proofs that debunk everything that flat Earth proponents claim.  Here we also expose the comments those YouTube video channels delete, because they don't want you to see them.

The Earth is not flat.  That claim is a conspiracy theory perpetrated by ignorant people who have ulterior personal motives and agendas.

The Earth is a beautiful blue spheroid globe spinning on an axis 23.5° once each day, and orbiting the Sun every 365.25 days.

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Flat Earth News (1800 - 1966) Samuel Shenton and others


Dear readers,                    

The Flat Earth movement as such started around the year 1610, when Galileo invited the Christian clergy to view the moons orbiting Jupiter thru his telescope.  They refused to look.


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Ever since then the major advocate of that movement has been Christian fundamentalist thinking that science is purposely somehow God.

To this very day, those folks still cannot reconcile the reality of our Sun / Earth / Universe with their religious thinking, because science evidence (that the Earth is round and not the center of the Universe) is contrary to their "belief" system.

Galileo's First Jupiter Observations
http://www.etwright.org/astro/sidnunj.html


The series of articles published below (from https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/) serve as insight into the thinking and theories developed by recent (1800 - 1969) flat Earth advocates.

Read and enjoy...

Samuel Shenton (March 1903 – 2 March 1971) was the founder in 1956 of the International Flat Earth Research Society (IFERS), based in Dover, England. He lectured tirelessly on this to youth clubs, political and student groups and during the Space Race in the 1960s he was frequently seen on television and in newspapers promoting his views.

Here is an interesting newspaper article that was published in 1969.  It's an interview with Samuel Shenton, initiated to discuss the recent Apollo 8 lunar landing.

The article enumerates, as described by Shenton,
“First, the earth was not always circular; once it was a square land mass.  But in the days of one of our ancestors called Peleg, believes Shenton, that land mass was torn asunder, something which could not have happened on a globe.”

The article also states that according to Shenton,
“The sun and the moon are both - perhaps surprisingly - accepted as being sphere.”


The Illustrated London News, February 8, 1969..


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The Birmingham Post, October 24, 1966...


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From the article...
"The author, Mr. D. Wardlaw Scott, tells us he is an old man and nearly blind, so that we have no desire to say anything that could hurt his feelings.  But his attempt to prove – mostly from a literal interpretation of the Authorized Version of the Bible – that the earth is flat and stationary in space is difficult to treat with respect at this time of day.”

“I confess,” he says, “that I cannot imagine how any human being, in his proper senses, can believe that the sun is stationary when, with his own eyes, he sees it revolving around the heavens, nor how he can believe that the earth, on which he stands, is whirling with the speed o lightning around the sun, when he feels not the slightest motion.  I can only account for the delusion, as having been introduced by Satan into the minds of certain men, who could inoculate those others with the poison, his object being to make it appear that God is a liar, and to befool the human race, which he so abhors.”

In London, The Daily News, May 17th 1901...
 

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Pall Mall Gazette, April 2, 1894...

In the following article it is contended that the curvature of Earth ocean water, is due to water properties of "surface tension" and "molecular cohesion."  

From the article:
"Surely water may have a curved surface when standing on a perfectly flat base.  You know a drop of water on a greasy plate, for instance, always has this outline."

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Continuing...
Moreover, if the earth were brick shaped, or the shaped of a thin book, the water upon it would still not spread itself as a level sheet of water.  It would be attracted toward the center of gravity of the earth, wherever that might be, and its surface would tend to assume a spherical curve around the center.  

So these people believe that gravity is real.



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The Evening Telegraph, November 21, 1921...



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Londonderry Sentinel, June 20,1905

Dr. De Evans, vice-president of th Universal Zetetic Society:


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Yorkshire Evening Post, November 12, 1913...


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Ballymena Observer, February 4, 1888...


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Gloucestershire Echo, July 14, 1911

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It was here that the lunatics who aver the earth is flat received a bad check, for choosing a straight piece of water some ten miles in length, while posts were stuck into it at certain measured intervals, and, since there was no opportunity for deception, when it became evident that after a certain distance less and less of the posts became visible, the flat-earth party – I forget its fancy name – had to acknowledge defeat, at any rate in the part of the world.

 

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Northern Daily Telegraph, September 20, 1909

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At the close of the lecture Lady Blount was asked to explain the well – known phenomenon of the ship at sea whose top masts come first in sight.  Amid much laughter, she declared that it only required a good telescope to bring the whole of the ship into sight.   It was only the mists on the surface of the water, not the curvature of the earth.


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Shields Daily Gazette, Letters to the Editor, September 5, 1895

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“On the one hand,” he proceeds, “either the writings of Moses are correct, and the earth is flat; or, on the other hand, the earth is round, and Moses, Christ, and God are liars.”


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Lincolnshire Chronicle, September 5, 1893...


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Essex County Chronicle, January 23, 1903...



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The Royal Leamington Spa Courier, November 20, 1875

The Bedford Canal wager goes to court. 

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The Evening Post, February 8, 1902

So before it was discoverd that radio waves bounce off the atmosphere's ionosphere layer, flat Earth folks insited that Marconi proved that the Earth was flat. 


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Norwich Mercury, January 10, 1903

Lady Blount, of the Universal Zetetic Society, opened all of her lectures with:

Text from the article...
The LECTURER prefaced her lecture by numerous quotations from Scripture, which she said formed the basis of her reasoning, and the conclusion of the quotation was followed by prayer.

 

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The Leeds Mercury Weekly Supplement, March 18, 1893

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The Zetetic moon would have hard work to account for these physical facts, as also for the trade winds, which, instead of blowing north and south only, as necessitated by an earth at rest, blow continuously toward the west, this being the direct result of the earth’s rotation on her axis and revolution in her orbit.

Zetetists should also explain, on their theory of the sun’s circular orbit, the difference in the number of days between the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, it being in our summer, say 186.5 days, and in winter about 178.75 days. 

The Zetetic theory also failed to account for darkness at the North Pole during winter, and also the fact that southern circumpolar stars are never seen in English latitudes.
 
The next speaker referred to the famous experiment on the Bedford Canal, in 1872, as having finally settled the question of the earth’s curvature.  The entire experiment has been carefully arranged, and the final decision of the umpire, editor of the “Field,” in favor of Mr. Wallace and against Mr. Hampden, should have been honorably accepted.  The obviously globular aspect of the moon, as seen through any small telescope, was also, it was shown, suggestive of the sphericity of other heavenly bodies besides our earth.

Mention was also made of the fact that the planet Neptune was found (paradoxical as it sounds) before it was seen, by calculations upon the disturbed orbit of Uranus, thus proving indirectly that the assumed masses, distances, and movements of the planets are correct.



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The Lincolnshire Chronicle, October 10, 1893

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While their (Zetetic Astronomy) imaginary moon is a nice little gaseous, self-luminous body quite close at hand, with no mountains on its surface to speak of, but simply a local eruption on its pale complexion, these two, with a number of small gaseous planets and stars in proportion – not half so many as astronomers are accustomed to gaze at – completes their “system.”

In all their letters and publications, they ask for ONE proof that the earth is round.  Well, here is one. And it’s against their most-urgently repeated assertion that the surface of all waters is level as a plane to any extent.  A few weeks ago, with a number of Lincolnians – always the chummiest of people – I was looking through a coastguard’s glass at the smoke of a steamer, or, as the tar suspected, an ironclad.  The spot was the North Stack.  The Blue Squadron were maneuvering with the “enemy” of Anglesea.  Now the point is this illustration is that the curve of the sea’s expanse between us and the vessel was so great that though we could see the smoke we could not see the lowest or issuing point of it.  Had the ironclad been anchored at that distance, and sent up a captive balloon as high as the smoke ascended, they would have overlooked the curvature and we should have been seen them, and they, on their part, would have had their horizon considerably enlarged, which, of course, would always be the same if the Irish sea was flat throughout its confines.   


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The Courier and Advertiser, January 23, 1931...

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Pall Mall Gazette, April 13, 1894


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The Western Morning News, September 21, 1909


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The Evening News, November 21, 1893

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Mr. Merritt, T.C., presided, and started the ball, or, rather, the flat earth, by quoting the Scriptures ad lib, in support of flatness.  Then he asked, if the earth was a globe, how could rain fall! (Applause and hisses.)  If a gun was fired vertically on a traveling earth, would the shot come down in the same place.  (Laughter and jeers).
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A third man said that if the earth were flat the cannon-ball would go up to the moon .  (More cheers and jeers.)
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He said that the twelve Zodiacal signs always did and would regulate the seasons (Jeers.)  He wouldn’t have Mother Earth maligned.  She was fixed, not always out for a drive (laughter).  Modern astronomy was a collection of lies. (“No.”)  The Astronomer Royal had not answered not (Loud applause.) 
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But there was no gravity.  The stars were kept in their place by the word of the Lord, and the earth by its own weight.  (Side-splitting laughter). 


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Islongton Daily Gazette and North London Tribune, August 23, 1907


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The Weekly Telegraph, March 20, 1897


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The Hampshire Telegraph, January 20, 1897


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The Bradford Daily Telegraph, February 18, 1905

From Mr. Norwell, Leeds Zetetic Society
“The fact is,” he added, “the earth is an irregular plain, resting on the waters of a great deep.  The sun dial,” he concluded, “proves conclusively that the earth is stationary, with the sun moving around it.”

   
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The Standard, April 27, 1905...


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Northern Daily Mail, October 28, 1911..


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Aberdeen Press and Journal, October 30, 1934

Text from the article:
One of the complaints against science is that it kills so many of our cherished beliefs.  It is true, or course, that the scientists give us others just as peculiar; they have, for instance, demolished the old theory of the flat earth to replace it by a burst bubble universe, and transformed solid substances into rays.


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The Evening Telegraph and Post, November 29, 1911

Test from the article:
Not a year passes without a request for a grant from someone who thinks he is on the track of the secret of perpetual motion.  The flat earth investigator is another regular caller. 


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The Birmingham Post, October 12, 1957

Observations of the Sputnik satellite.

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The Nottingham Evening Post, January 3, 1885..

Samuel Rowbotham also known as "Parallax"

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The Norwich Mercury, November 1, 1856

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The Morning Post, April 19, 1897

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Let us assume that the earth is a flat surface like a table and examine what would happen.   Place on the table 3 objects, one on the left,  one in the center,  and one on the right.   That on the left to represent India, that in the center England,  and that on the right America.   Called these ABC.  Next take a lighted candle, or any object, raise this from the floor till it comes on the same level as the table.  The instant it is on the same level, it would be seen simultaneously from A, B and C.  The instant van that the sun rose in India, it would also rise in England and in America.   Does it do so?   We know it does not.

The moon, it is known, maybe vertical to a person on one point of the earth’s surface, and have an altitude of 45° to another person.   If the earth were a flat surface, then the moon must be at the same distance in miles from the person to whom it is vertical that is person is from the observer to whom the moon has an altitude of forty-five degrees.    What must follow?  The person looking at the moon when it is vertical must see a different face of the moon to that which would be seen by the other observer.
The same face of the moon is seen by all observers no matter whether the moon be overhead or near the horizon.


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Aberdeen Press and Journal, April 20, 1878


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Birmingham Gazette, November 8, 1938


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Birmingham Gazette, January 28, 1938..


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The Leeds and Yorkshire Mercury, September 30, 1905

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With these must now be ranked the orthodox zealots, whose science of cosmogony recognizes no later text-book that Genesis; who implicitly believe in the comparative recent creation of man and woman by a couple of conjuring tricks; and who scoff at the manifest truth that mankind are the product of the law of evolution, working through immeasurable periods of tie, and still actively at work in times present

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Why, then, do the orthodox zealots, shuttering their eyes to facts and their ears to the opinions of their more tolerant brethren, insist that Genesis is truth, and that the science which contradicts it is untruth?”


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Nottingham and Midland Counties Daily Express, June 13, 1872
 

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The Original Bedford Canal Experiment

Preston Herald, June 2, 1866



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The Scotsman, April 8, 1939

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Until the ships disappeared over the horizon, the people of Brindisi continued to wave farewell.


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Aberdeen Evening Express, June 3, 1916

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The Germans ran home as soon as they saw our biggest ships creep over the horizon.


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Liverpool Daily Post, July 9, 1941

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Two ships sighted vanished over the horizon.


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Shields Daily News, October 17, 1949

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Ship radar is directed at the plane, which in turn relays beams from ships toward targets over the horizon.


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Aberdeen Evening Express, April 2, 1960


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Motherwell Times, December 27, 1935

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New visual proof that the earth is round is shown in a picture taken almost 14 miles above the earth’s surface during the recent record-breaking stratosphere flight over South Dakota (says Reuter from Washington).

Captain Albert W. Stevens, of the U.S. Army Air Corp, co-sponsor with the National Geographic Society of the flight, showed for the first time at a meeting of the Society in Washington, still and motion pictures take when the balloon was 72,395 feet up.

The earth curvature picture shows a section of the horizon 220 miles long, more than three and a half degrees of a circle, and about one-hundredth part of the total circumference of the earth.


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Western Daily Press, March 31, 1914


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The Scotman, December 3, 1932..


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Illustrated London News, July 18, 1931

Text from the article:
The Earth's Curvature Shown By Aerial Photography

Photographs by Capt. Albert W. Stevens, Diagram by Albert H. Bumstead, Copywrite N.G.S. Reproduced by Special Permission from the "National Geographic Magazine."
 

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Article here in .pdf format makes it easy to read...

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