Does Earth Really Rotate and Review of Earth Shape

Author(s): Abhaysagar
Publisher: Jambudvi Vignyan Research Centre

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motion of the pressure of the air i.e. natural motion of the atmosphere is regarded to be the cause.
As time went on this theory became very wide-spread and the principle that the earth moves was accepted by the royal authorities. It got its place in all the school and college text-books.Childen were tautght from the very beginning that the earth rotates. THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH :
There are different opinions about the shape of the earth.Genrally it is taken for granted that the earth is round
Let us see what the learned persons say in this matter.
In 'The Sunday News of India' of 2nd May 1948 Henry Foster had contributed an article-'How Round is The Earth?. there he tells us that “The Earth is flat”. He has also given reasons to support his belief.
He has also given reasons to support his helief.
Moreover he tells us that Mr. William Edgell studied this subject for about fifty years. He had spent many nights in observing the clusters of stars. He did not even sleep at ease. Mostly he spent his nights sitting in a chair and studying the stars.
He had erected an iron-pipe in the same line as that of the Norh pole star. The pipe was quite facing the Norh pole star. After a pretty long and studious observation he declared that :
"The Earth is flat, and the Sun moves all around the earth. And the Sun has a diameter of only 10 miles. The Pole Star is only 5,000 miles away."*
* "Many people have spent years trying to prove that the earth is flat, but few have revealed such zeal as the late William Edgell of Midsomer Norton, Somerset.Edgell strove for over 50 years in order to study the night skies.He never went to bed but slept in a chair. Also he created a steel tube in his garden pointing towards the Pole Star which was visible through it. This eccentric man eventually evolved the theory of a flat, basin shaped earth with the Sun moving north and south across it. He contented that the Pole Star was only 5000 miles away,and that the Sun was only 10 miles in diameter."
'The Sunday News of India,'
May 2nd, 1948.