Global Scaling

Proving the Earth is Flat

The Earth Review, No. 6 January 1896

By W. Carpenter

To prove that a “ model" globe is to a double scale, measure from London to Philadelphia on the first globe you see; the distance is 3.000 miles, the space may be 2, 3 or more inches, say 3 inches

(perhaps a 1 foot globe), then the scale is 1,000 miles to the inch ; let that answer for the “ Northern Hemisphere”; now turn to the Southern, measure again from C. G. Hope to C. Horn; only a fraction more space, but how great the distance!! Captains tell me it is 9,500 miles, this is the least distance; I have heard as high as 12,000 miles; call it 9,000; then the scale is 1,000 miles to the inch (the journey in question being a certain number of degrees out of the 360°, it must be allowed that the balance of the measure round must be the complement, and to the same scale), ergo. Northern Hemisphere 1,000 miles to the inch, Southern, 3,000 miles to the inch ! Everything in the way as a model or a plan, made to a double scale, is a folly and a fraud. Try the plan of a house and see for yourselves.