Does Earth Really Rotate and Review of Earth Shape

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

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only, when rockets and others begin theer journey not from east to west but from South to North, keep.ing a fix gaze at the Pole Star and not the changeful places poles of the sunrise. That is, the path of their journey will be from the equator to the North Pole and then to the South pole through America, back to the equator via Australia. Only then it can be said that the earth is round.
Otherwise, circumambulation from the East to the West is the result of perplexed intelligence. It is a problem how to travel over the North pole. The South Pole region is as good as unknown. Then how can a travel towards that region be possible? Therefore the argument to prove that the earth is round, by saying that if one travels in the same diection throughout, one can come back to the very place from where one had started is as good as befooling the children.
In additon to this, we have been able to collect some authentic information by corresponding with many well nown learned persons at home and abroad. Reklying upon it we can say confidently that “All the conjectures, evidences, authoriies, and arguments which are put forward to prove that the earth is round are very very far from reality They are half truths imperfect as well as based on imagination and inference."
Some evidences cited below have been set aside after proper considration. They bear no excitement of prejudice or partiality. Research scholars and others who are interested are strongly requested by us to ponder over the points given below. We firmly believe that after properly testing the points, readers also will be led to doubt the statement that the earth is round.
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