Bedford Level experiment
Series of observations carried out along a six-mile length of the Old Bedford River in an attempt to determine the shape of the Earth
The Bedford Level experiment was a series of observations carried out along a 6-mile (10 km) length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level of the Cambridgeshire Fens in the United Kingdom. They were performed during the 19th and early 20th centuries to deny the curvature of the Earth through measurement.
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Bedford Level experiment
Series of observations carried out along a six-mile length of the Old Bedford River in an attempt to determine the shape of the Earth
The Bedford Level experiment was a series of observations carried out along a 6-mile (10 km) length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level of the Cambridgeshire Fens in the United Kingdom. They were performed during the 19th and early 20th centuries to deny the curvature of the Earth through measurement.
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The Bedford Level experiment was a series of observations carried out along a 6-mile (10 km) length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level of the Cambridgeshire Fens in the United Kingdom. They were performed during the 19th and early 20th centuries to deny the curvature of the Earth through measurement. Samuel Birley Rowbotham, who conducted the first observations starting in 1838, claimed that he had proven the Earth to be flat. However, in 1870, after adjusting Rowbotham's method to allow for the effects of atmospheric refraction, Alfred Russel Wallace found a curvature consistent with a spherical Earth.
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