FLAT EARTH THEORY
(From Odb Own Correspondent.) 1 LONDON, January 12. Mr William Edgell, who has just died at Midsomer Norton, near Bath, at the a»e of 73, was convinced that the earth was flat, and for a period of 50 years had been attempting to prove his theory. When he was 20 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 his garden pointing towards the Pole Star, which was visible through it, and 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 5000 miles away, and that the sun was only 10 miles in diameter. Edgell »lso invented a free wheel for bicycles, an automatic weighing machine, and an airless tyre. - . ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22492, 9 February 1935, Page 14
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