Does Earth Really Rotate and Review of Earth Shape

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

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(27) VEGETATION:
If the earth is round, there will be the same kind of vegetation towards the North Pole and the South Pole. It is not so in reality. In Greenland, Iceland, Siberia and other regions near the cold Arctic zone there grow potatoes, peas, grams and barley where as in the South on 70° latitude nothing grows in Orkneys and Shetland islands. (28) THE FORCE OF GRAVITATION:
It has been proved with the help of experiments that as we go towards the SOUTH Pole the force of gravitation of the earth gradually decreases. Those who have travelled towards the North Pole report that there it is much difficult to lift up even a weight of 100 lbs.; but quite reverse are the reports of those who have travelled towards the South. They report that they could lift up quite easily a weight of 300 to 400 Ibs. If the earth had been round like an orange the force of gravitation would have been as much strong at the South Pole as it is at the North Pole. (29) HELIOGRAPH :
“Harpers, Weekly'-an American periodical in its issue of 20th October, 1894 reports: In the North from Mount" Doncomprego in Cloreds people were able to send a message to Mount Allen at a distance of 183 miles, with the help of a heliograph. * The above mentioned experiment would have utterly failed, because in the distance of 183 miles the curvature of the earth would have obstructed the path of the rays of the sun. (30) TME MARINERS' COMPASS :
If the earth is round, while going to the South of the equator the needle of the Mariner's Compass must point to- the South Pole. But it does not happen like that. One may be any where but the needle shows the middle path.
It is also necessary to mention that the earth has the longest circumference at the equator and the shortest at the North Pole.
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