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| − | David Wardlaw Scott was an early Flat Earth proponent, best known for his 1901 work ''Terra Firma: the Earth Not a Planet, Proved from Scripture, Reason, and Fact''.
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| − | {{cite2|I confess that I cannot imagine how any human being, in his
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| − | proper senses, can believe that the Sun is stationary when, with his
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| − | believe that the earth, on which he stands, is whirling with the
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| − | {{cite2|The distance between the Red Sea at Suez and the
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| − | Mediterranean Sea is 100 statute miles, the datum line of the Canal
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| − | continued horizontally the whole way from sea to sea, there not
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| − | being a single lock on the Canal, the surface of the water being
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| − | parallel with the datum line.
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| − | It is thus clear that there is no curvature or globularity for the
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| − | whole hundred miles between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea;
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| − | had there been, according to the Astronomic theory, the middle of
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| − | the Canal would have been 1,666 feet higher than at either end,
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| − | whereas the Canal is perfectly horizontal for the whole distance.
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| − | The Great Canal of China, said to be 700 miles in length, was
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| − | the Chinese believe the earth to be a Stationary Plane.
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| − | I may also add that no allowance was made for it in the North
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