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...DURAN-REYNALS, M.D. Yale University...
While Amateur Astronomer Antonio Duran Navarro lay on his back and gazed at the heavens, I wonder whether he was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs by lantern-light or moonshine? The idea of a universe contained within the earth's crust was conceived by Mr. Burroughs some 25 years ago in his novel Pellucidar [and its predecessor, At the Earth's Core...
...Berlin, the other in Buenos Aires), two amateur astronomers last week had independently decided that Copernicus had everything inside out and backwards. The earth, Germany's Valentin Herz explained, does not revolve from west to east; it spins in the opposite direction. Argentina's Antonio Duran Navarro had an even more novel idea. Says Navarro: "The universe, 8,000 miles in diameter, is contained within the earth...
Outside In. Duran Navarro (a lawyer by profession) arrived at his theory by a process of elimination. If the earth's inhabitants live on the outside of a spinning sphere (as is popularly supposed), why, he reasoned, doesn't everything fly off into outer space? (Navarro takes no stock at all in centripetal force...
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