IN a paper entitled "The Story of Newton's Inverse Square Law and his Use of a False Radius of the Earth" (J. Brit. Astro. Assoc., 50, 2; 1939), John Miller states that the story of Newton's alleged ...

Introduction If you wanted to measure the circumference of Earth, how long would your tape measure have to be? Would you need to walk the whole way around the world to find the answer? Do you think ...

If you step outside anywhere on the surface of the Earth, there's no obvious signs that tell you the Earth isn't flat. It looks flat pretty much anywhere you go, including -- as Shaq recently noted-- ...