Does Earth Really Rotate and Review of Earth Shape

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

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noted. Believing that the earth is flat ptolemy had predicted eclipses and his predictions had also come out true. (23) THE CANAL IN CHINA :
A big canal in China is 700 miles long. When it was constructed no thought was given to the curvature of the earth. This Chinese canal is a challenge to those who :say that the earth is round. (24) THE NORTH POLE STAR:
Astronomers' principle-'The earth is round' forces us to decide that if a person travels to the South of the equator it is not possible for him to see the North Pole Star. Yet it is a well-known fact that sailors could see and they did see the North Pole Star even when they went beyond 20° latitude to the South of the equator. What does this fact imply?
There is another fact to be pondered over about the North Pole Star. According to one principle of Newton generally it is supposed that “The earth is 19 crore miles away in the month of June from where it is in December." Now we can see the North Pole Star on the Southern latitude - from the same angle during the whole of the year. How can this happen? (25) WATER SEEKS ITS OWN LEVEL:
If the earth is believed to be round, water will begin to flow on all sides from the point where it starts because all around it the earth is slopey. Let us take an illustration of a ball. If we pour water on a ball, it will flow towards all the directions.
The fact is that the water on the earth does not flow in all the directions. It flows towards the lower level region only, and in the end reaches the sea. Having with us this “testimony, how can we say that the earth is round.? (26) HEIGHTS OF GLACIERS :
If the earth had been round, the heights of perennial avalanches to the North of the equator would have been the same as those in the South.
In the Sor America the height of the perennial aval anches is 16,000 feet. Bu is we proceed to the north this height gradually decreases. At las it goes down from 2000 feet to even 400 feet. Why sa?
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