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One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe
William Carpenter
78 pages~1 hr 34 min read20 chapters$4.99
William Carpenter lines up a hundred arguments that the earth is flat, and means every one. This notorious nineteenth-century tract is a curiosity of stubborn reasoning, complete with letters from the astronomers he tried to convert. A window into how conviction can outrun evidence. Read the case history of a spectacularly wrong idea.
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20 chapters
- 1INDEX.
- 2INTRODUCTION.
- 3ONE HUNDRED PROOFS THAT EARTH IS NOT A GLOBE.
- 4APPENDIX TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- 5OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
- 6[Appendix to Third Edition.] COPY OF LETTER FROM RICHARD A. PROCTOR, ESQ.
- 7[Appendix to Fourth Edition.] COPY OF LETTER FROM SPENCER F. BAIRD, ESQ.
- 8APPENDIX TO THE FIFTH EDITION.
- 9LETTERS TO PROFESSOR GILMAN, OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY.
- 10THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, OF BALTIMORE.
- 11PROFESSOR PROCTOR’S PROOFS.
- 12ODDS AND ENDS.
- 13Colophon
- 14Availability
- 15Metadata
- 16Catalog entries
- 17Encoding
- 18Revision History
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