A FLAT EARTH ENTHUSIAST
iFrom "The Post's" Representative) ™ , - LONDON, January 12. Mr. William Edgell, who has just died at Midsomer Norton, near Bath, at the age of 73, was convinced that the earth was flat, and for a period of fifty years had been attempting to prove his theory.
When he was twenty years of age, he took an oath to his dying father that he would "prove the theory. In order to study the night skies, Edgell never went, to bed, but slept in a chair. He erected a steel tube in riis garden pointing towards the Pole Star, which was visible through it, aria he evolyed the theory of a flat, basirishaped earth, with the sun moving north and south across;it. He contended that the Pole Star was only 5000 miles away, and that the.sun was only 10 miles in diameter. Edgell also invented a-free-wheel ior bicycles, an automatic weighing machine, and an airless tire. .
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Evening Post, Issue 38, 14 February 1935, Page 5
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