Ulysses Morrow, who turned the world inside-out

While I’m busy moving house, please enjoy this classic SciencePunk article. Normal service will resume once I get my “office” unpacked.

Ulysses Morrow was a newspaper editor, inventor, and geodesist, who was asked by his friend Cyrus Teed to scientifically prove that the surface of the world was concave. Not only did Morrow accept this challenge - he succeeded in proving the inward curve of the Earth’s surface. This became known as the Naples Experiment.

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