LIFE WORK FAILS
TO PROVE EARTH WAS FLAT
LONDON, January 27. Mr William Edgell, who for over fifty-three years tried to prove that the earth was flat, has died at Midsomer Norton near Bath, at the age of seventy-three years. At tho_ age _of twenty he took an oath to bis dying father that he would prove the theory, on which he had worked ever since. In order to study the night skies Edgell never went to bed, but slept in a chair and erected a steel tube in his garden pointing towards the Pole Star, which was visible through it. He evolved the theory of a flat, basin-shaped earth, with the sun moving north and south across it. He contended that the Pole Star was only 6,000 miles away, and that the suri was only ten miles in diameter. Edgell also invented a free-wheel for ' bicycles, an automatic weighing machine,, and an airless tyre.'
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19350219.2.77
Bibliographic details
Evening Star, Issue 21958, 19 February 1935, Page 9
Word Count
155LIFE WORK FAILS Evening Star, Issue 21958, 19 February 1935, Page 9
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in