2026-10-06 Google web search (Chrome), Parallax
Investigator run 1 (STEP I). Browsing started at Unix time 1791323581 and stopped at about 505 s (8 min 25 s), inside the 10-minute cap. No deep dive.
Google was the entry point for most sites below. Every query used:
| # | Query | What it led to |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Rowbotham" "Zetetic Astronomy" 1849 OR 1873 OR 1881 edition archive.org |
Project Gutenberg, Open Library, sacred-texts (1881 ed.), archive.org (Earth Not a Globe Review 1893-97), Wikipedia |
| 2 | "Alexander Gleason" map patent 1892 OR 1893 "new standard map" |
Boston Public Library and DPLA catalogue records, Leventhal Map Center exhibit, Reuters fact check (2022) |
| 3 | Gleason map "patent" 1893 "US497917" OR "497,917" OR "time calculator" site:patents.google.com |
Google Patents US 497,917 A (see 2026-10-06-google-patents.md) |
| 4 | "Gleason" "Is the Bible from Heaven? Is the Earth a Globe?" 1890 |
LoC research guide (see loc-guides), Reuters, Leventhal |
| 5 | "Royal Astronomical Society" "December 8, 1848" OR "Dec. 8, 1848" Parallax Rowbotham paper |
Schadewald, The Plane Truth (cantab.net), ADS MNRAS vol. 8 (1848) PDF |
| 6 | site:cantab.net PlaneTruth Rowbotham |
Chapter list of Schadewald's book (Ch.1 to 9, Appendix B, Notes) |
| 7 | Blount 1904 "Bedford Level" Clifton Dallmeyer photograph "The Earth" pdf |
library.tfes.org PDF "Collapse of the Globular Theory" (blocked, see library-tfes), Scribd copy of Blount 1904 |
| 8 | site:wallace-online.org Hampden "Bedford" canal 1870 |
Wallace Online S179aa (Hampden 1870 pamphlet) and S202 |
| 9 | "Jones" pendulum "Manchester" Athenaeum 1851 Foucault experiment |
Negative: nothing on the Rev. H. H. Jones Manchester pendulum |
| 10 | "Yule Oldham" 1901 "curvature" Bedford "British Association" |
Wikipedia (Henry Yule Oldham), Charles Fort New Lands ch.6 (Wikisource, Gutenberg), ousewashes.info |
Leads found only as search-result snippets (not opened, so treat as pointers only): - Reuters fact check, 27 Oct 2022: says Gleason argued for a flat Earth in his 1890 book, citing its p.350 [web: https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/alexander-gleason... (snippet only)]. - ADS scan of Monthly Notices RAS vol. 8 (1848) [web: https://adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1848MNRAS...8..14C (snippet)]. The question is whether any notice of a Dec. 8, 1848 paper appears in MNRAS vol. 9. Not reached. - Charles Fort, New Lands (1923) Part 1 ch.6, which discusses Oldham's 1901 paper [web: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/New_Lands/Part_1/Chapter_6 (snippet)]. This is Fortean commentary on the test (priority 3, related work). - ousewashes.info "Bedford Level Flat Earth Experiments" page [web: http://www.ousewashes.info/experiments/flat-earth (snippet)]. It is a local-history site that may hold place-level detail (Welney, Welche's Dam).