Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Skellam A. E.
Title : The shape of the World
Year : 1893

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On this subject there are two great schools of thought; one which teaches that the world is a globe of 25,000 miles circumference, rotating on its axis once in twentyfour hours at the rate of 1,000 miles per hour, and revolving in an orbit round the sun once a year at the rate of 68,000 miles per hour ; the other teaches that the earth is a vast irregular plane, stretched out from the Central North and standing in and out of the waters, the surface of which is horizontal. One of these two views must be wrong, and the other right. ...