Does Earth Really Rotate and Review of Earth Shape

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

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If here the circumference of the earth is 10,700 miles, a person travelling on and on in the same directions must in this case come back four times to the same spot. Instead, he walked on, and on and he had to return. What does that show? Is it truthful to say that the earth is round? . (5) REPORTS OF THE SURVEYORS:
Reports of the Surveyors Institution of America tell us that “One degree of latitude towards the Tropic of Cancer covers 50 miles. Then the distance in miles decreases as one proceeds to the North Pole. In the same way one degree of latitude towards the Tropic of Capricorn covers 75 miles. Then the distance in miles increases as one proceeds towards the South. Towards the South Pole one degree of latitude overs 103” miles. Why so? In fact, if the earth is round each degree of latitude must cover the same distance in miles in both the North as well as the South. (6) WEIGHT:
Autobiographies of the explorers of the North Pole tell us that it requires a great amount of strength to lift up and to carry even a small weight of 100 lbs. in the North Pole Region. On the contrary the explorers of the South Pole tell us that even a weight of 400 to 500 lbs. can be very easily lifted up and carried away with great ease. Why this difference, if the earth is round. (7) THE POLE STAR:
How can the people who inhabit the Mediterrauean Line or live beyond it see the Pole Star? Explorers towards the South report that the Pole Star appears up to 30° latitude beyond the Mediterranean Line. (8) THE LENGTH OF THE DAY :
It can be known from the Nautical Almanac pubished by Bureau of Navigation, Washington that in Sheland islands on 30° latitude in the South the longest day lasts for 16 hours and 56 minutes; whereas on the same latitude in the North at Hammerfast in Norway the longest day lasts for 3 months. If the earth is really round, why there so much difference between similar latitudes in North and South?
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