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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.
Spherical Earth or Earth's curvature refers to the approximation of the figure of the Earth as a sphere . The earliest documented mention of the concept dates from around the 5th century BC, when it appears in the writings of Greek philosophers. [1] [2] In the 3rd century BC, Hellenistic astronomy established the roughly spherical shape of ...
Doom II, also known as Doom II: Hell on Earth, is a first-person shooter game in the Doom franchise developed by id Software. It was released for MS-DOS in 1994 and Macintosh in 1995. Unlike the original Doom, which was initially only available through shareware and mail order, Doom II was sold in stores. Compared to its predecessor, Doom II ...
The aim of WikiProject Maps is to improve the quality of maps across the Wikimedia Foundation. The Maps for Wikipedia page is an overview of different formats and tools for maps available on Wikipedia. The Map conventions page provides advice for creating and improving maps. The Map workshop page can be used to add your map requests and your ...
First image of Earth from orbit, showing a sunlit area of the Central Pacific Ocean and its cloud cover. [image needed] 1959 Explorer 7: The first "coarse maps of the solar radiation reflected by the Earth and the infrared radiation emitted by the Earth", from a mission launched on October 13, 1959. 1960 TIROS-1
Total atmospheric mass is 5.1480×10 18 kg (1.135×10 19 lb), about 2.5% less than would be inferred from the average sea level pressure and Earth's area of 51007.2 megahectares, this portion being displaced by Earth's mountainous terrain. Atmospheric pressure is the total weight of the air above unit area at the point where the pressure is ...
978-0261102187. Preceded by. The Lays of Beleriand. Followed by. The Lost Road and Other Writings. The Shaping of Middle-earth – The Quenta, The Ambarkanta and The Annals [1] (1986) is the fourth volume of Christopher Tolkien 's 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth in which he analysed the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R ...