Does Earth Really Rotate and Review of Earth Shape

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

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An American Airways Company showed its unwillingness to undertake a flight over the North and the South Poles. (as shown in the figure on left). Thus it is improper to form an idea of the round shape earth towards the North and the South by going on the East and the west. It is easy to understand from calculations, given in the arithmeticf 184. Mandal Orbits the Sun in Jain Scriptures. Why journey from the East to the west is possible. (14) RIVER-COURSES :
It is a well accepted principle that rivers flow down from higher regions to the ones. If the earth had been round, all the rivers to the North of the equator would have flowed from the South to the North; and similarly in The other side. But it is not so in reality. Most of the rivers among. The Himalayas flow from North to the South. If the earth had been round such would not have been the courses of the rivers. (15) SUEZ CANAL:
Ferdinand de Lesseps, a French engineer undertook the task of turning the distance of 100 miles between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea into a sea-canal. When this publicly was announced there was enormous uproar in Great Britain. Lord Palmerston, the then “Prime Minister of Britain” addressing an institute of Civil engineers, admonished its members for not undertaking the Suez Canal work and thus bringing disgrace to their Country.
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