Why Scientists Briefly Thought the Earth Was Hollow

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Our understanding of the world has to start somewhere! And while early ideas like the Hollow Earth Theory are mostly wrong and sound silly to us now, that doesn’t mean they weren’t important. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: www.wired.com/2014/07/fantastically-wrong-hollow-earth/ books.google.com/books/about/Hollow_Earth.html?id=J1BC7eFLBFcC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false www.britannica.com/biography/Athanasius-Kircher cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/what-creates-earth-s-magnetic-field phys.org/news/2015-12-earth-layers.html books.google.com/books?id=fAFvvG3SWgwC&pg=PT48&lpg=PT48&dq=schiehallion+experiment+hollow+earth&source=bl&ots=ROo7TJr0HW&sig=LIuZhsthbIjdrHGjKBIRjm0QG1I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwic7ZTZ58XeAhVlilQKHdhiBCQ4ChDoATADegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=schiehallion%20experiment%20hollow%20earth&f=false www.britannica.com/biography/Inge-Lehmann www.britannica.com/biography/Edmond-Halley www.britannica.com/biography/Isaac-Newton#ref363996 phys.org/news/2005-06-weight-world-year-old-schiehallion.html sjg.lyellcollection.org/content/43/1/15 www.princeton.edu/~oa/manual/mapcompass2.shtml www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-if-newtons-principia-mathematica-published-today-had-been-in-comic-sans-638230/ www.britannica.com/biography/Nevil-Maskelyne www.britannica.com/topic/Core-Within-Earths-Inner-Core-The-2046720 sjg.lyellcollection.org/content/43/1/15 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002182869202300304?journalCode=jhaa Image Sources: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schoenbartbuch_218.jpg www.istockphoto.com/photo/kaymakli-underground-city-tunnel-stairs-cappadocia-turkey-gm182773500-12956554 www.videoblocks.com/video/alpha-channel-flames-and-fire-8-dai1vaw www.istockphoto.com/photo/earths-layers-gm182678088-12380483 www.istockphoto.com/photo/tyrannosaurus-rex-gm182492703-12223949 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmond_Halley_072.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lspn_comet_halley.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prinicipia-title.png www.istockphoto.com/vector/earth-with-grid-lines-europe-and-africa-gm466584103-34145102 www.istockphoto.com/vector/guidance-flat-icon-gm969127448-264174086 www.istockphoto.com/vector/vintage-sailboat-gm483390489-17408923 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Hutton.jpg www.videoblocks.com/video/emerald-lake-ifkxenm www.istockphoto.com/za/photo/planet-earth-with-some-clouds-americas-view-gm186019678-25156678 www.istockphoto.com/za/photo/backgrounds-photos-gm898660948-247979947 www.istockphoto.com/za/photo/nickel-ore-gm506615578-84308003 www.istockphoto.com/za/photo/the-iron-ore-on-a-white-background-gm918829382-252730626 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_Magnetic_Field_Declination_from_1590_to_1990.gif commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GodfreyKneller-IsaacNewton-1689.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halley_compass_variations_1702.jpg www.istockphoto.com/photo/venus-gm171149710-14407038 www.istockphoto.com/photo/3d-rendering-planet-mars-isolated-on-black-gm949235488-259128899 www.istockphoto.com/photo/mercury-gm183817880-16094120 www.istockphoto.com/photo/planet-earth-with-some-clouds-americas-view-gm186019678-25156678

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