Hollow Earth
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hollow-earth-178-4874407
title:
Hollow Earth
text:
The Hollow Earth is a concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow or contains a substantial interior space. Notably suggested by Edmond Halley in the late 17th century, the notion was disproven, first tentatively by Pierre Bouguer in 1740, then definitively by Charles Hutton in his Schiehallion experiment around 1774. It was still occasionally defended through the mid-19th century, notably by John Cleves Symmes Jr. and J. N. Reynolds, but by this time it was part of popular pseudo
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Idea that the Earth is partially or completely hollow
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth
date created:
2001-10-12T13:01:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T12:16:04Z
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