Experimental Evidence

The following sections contain experimental evidence in favor of a Flat Earth.

Sinking Ship Effect
It is proven that the ship does not sink behind a hill of water, but that it is actually perspective which hides it. This demonstrates that the earth is not a globe. There have been experiments where half-sunken ships have been restored by simply looking at them through telescopes, showing that they are not actually hiding behind "hills of water".

Main article: Sinking Ship Effect

The English Mechanic
From The English Mechanic, a scientific journal:

"The Flat Earth: another Bedford Canal experiment" (Bernard H.Watson, et al), ENGLISH MECHANIC, 80:160, 1904 Bedford Canal, England. A repeat of the 1870 experiment "A train of empty turf-boats had just entered the Canal from the river Ouse, and    was about proceeding to Ramsey. I arranged with the captain to place the shallowest     boat last in the train, and to take me on to Welney Bridge, a distance of six     miles. A good telescope was then fixed on the lowest part of the stern of the last     boat. The sluice gate of the Old Bedford Bridge was 5ft. 8in. high, the turf-boat     moored there was 2ft. 6in. high, and the notice board was 6ft. 6in. from the water.     The sun was shining strongly upon them in the direction of the south-southwest; the     air was exceedingly still and clear, and the surface of the water smooth as a     molten mirror, so that everything was favourable for observation. At 1.15 p.m. the     train started for Welney. As the boats gradually receded, the sluice gate, the     turf-boat and the notice board continued to be visible to the naked eye for about four miles. When the sluice gate and the turf-boat (being of a dark colour) became somewhat indistinct, the notice board (which was white) was still plainly visible, and remained so to the end of six miles. But on looking through the telescope all the objects were distinctly visible throughout the whole distance. On reaching Welney Bridge I made very careful and repeated observations, and finding several men upon the banks of the canal, I called them to look through the telescope. They all saw distinctly the white notice board, the sluice gate, and the black turf-boat moored near them. Now, as the telescope was 18in. above the water, The line of sight would touch the horizon at one mile and a half away (if the surface were convex). The curvature of    the remaining four miles and a half would be 13ft. 6in. Hence the turf-boat should have been 11ft., the top of the sluice gate 7ft. 10in., and the bottom of the notice board 7ft. below the horizon. My recent experiment affords undeniable proof of the Earth's unglobularity, because it rests not on transitory vision; but my proof remains printed on the negative of    the photograph which Mr.Clifton took for me, and in my presence, on behalf of     J.H.Dallmeyer, Ltd. A photograph can not 'imagine' nor lie!"

Further Evidence

 * Tom Bishop demonstrates that the earth is flat here: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=18114.msg319626#msg319626


 * Professor Mark Fonstad of Southwest Texas University mathematically demonstrates the earth's flatness here: http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i3/kansas.html


 * There are further experiments which demonstrate a Flat Earth in the book Zetetic Cosmogony by Thomas Winship: http://books.google.com/books?id=GzkKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA#PPP9


 * Daniel Shenton has demonstrated it here on the Old Bedford Canal: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=34316.msg841118#msg841118


 * See Samuel Birley Rowbotham's work on the Bedford Canal and other British locations in his work Earth Not a Globe which demonstrates a Flat Earth: http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/za00.htm


 * A woman named Lady Bount was among the first to peer review Rowbotham's work: Lady Blount Trials


 * In "A Hundred Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe" by William Carpenter there are a number of referenced experiments which demonstrates the earth's non-globularity: http://flatearthlogic.webs.com/hundredproofs.htm


 * There are referenced experiments in the book "Terra Firma 1901" by David Wardlaw Scott which favor a Flat Earth: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924031764594