Bedford Level experiment
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The Bedford Level Experiment refers to a series of investigations conducted in the 19th century to measure the curvature of the Earth. The most famous of these experiments was carried out by the British scientist Samuel Rowbotham in 1865, who was a proponent of the flat Earth theory. The experiment took place in the Bedford Level, a series of drainage channels in the Fenlands of England.
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