These two places are 143 degrees of longitude from each other. “From near Cape Horn, Chile to Port Philip in Melbourne, Australia the distance is 9,000 miles. This perfectly explains why Ross and other navigators in the deep South experienced 12+ mile daily discrepancies between their reckoning and reality, the farther South travelled the farther the divide.
On a globe 25,000 miles in equatorial circumference, however, degrees of longitude at 34 degrees latitude would be only 58 miles, a full 12 miles per degree less than reality. One 360th part of 25,182 gives 70 miles as the distance between each degree of longitude at Sydney’s 34 degree Southern latitude.
This is larger than the Earth is said to be at the equator, and 4262 miles greater than it would be at Sydney’s southern latitude on a globe of said proportions! Therefore if 22 degrees 2’14” out of 360 is 1550 miles, the entirety measures 25,182 miles. Their given difference in longitude is 22 degrees 2’14”. Allowing a more than sufficient 83 miles as the distance for rounding Cape Farewell and sailing up Tasman Bay to Nelson leaves 1550 statute miles as the straight-line distance from the meridian of Sydney to the meridian of Nelson. The “Australian Handbook, Almanack, Shippers’ and Importers’ Directory” states that the distance between Sydney and Nelson is 1400 nautical or 1633 statute miles. Samuel Rowbotham in “Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe” states: Rowbotham’s method, which he called Zetetic Astronomy, models the Earth as an enclosed plane centered at the North Pole and bounded along its perimeter by a wall of ice, with the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars moving only several hundred miles above the surface of Earth.ĭr. His work was based on his decade-long studies of Earth and was originally published as a 16-page pamphlet (1849), which he later expanded into a 430-page book (1881). Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816–1884) was an English inventor and writer who wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe under the pseudonym “Parallax”. Samuel Rowbothamįlat earthers often quote from the book of Dr.
But now it seems some scientists are suggesting the southern half of the ‘globe’ is bigger than the norther half of the globe. There appears to be some confirmation that this is a fact from the world of science with noted figures including Neil deGrasse Tyson stating that the earth is “pear shaped.” Previously they were saying it was an oblate spheroid, but still symmetrical on the north and south half’s. And in this way they come up with circumferences in the south that are not only greater than the corresponding circumference for the same latitude in the north but are even greater than the circumference of the earth at the equator, which, on a globe, should be the greatest circumference. By calculating the actual distance contained in a degree of latitude and then multiplying this by 360 they calculate the total circumference of the earth at that point in the south and compare it with corresponding circumference for the same latitude in the north. Flat earthers report inconsistencies with distances in the southern hemisphere.