Every file in the archive
One page that holds the whole archive: how it is organised, the order to read it in, a line on what each file covers, and a plain description of the files the site itself is built from.
The archive is a folder of ordinary web pages, one page per subject. There is no database behind it, no account to make, and nothing that runs in your browser after the page loads — every table, answer and definition is already written into the page you are reading. That is deliberate: a page that depends on nothing can be read on any device, archived, and checked years from now.
The pages fall into three kinds. Observation files take one thing a person can see or measure — the horizon, still water, the sun's apparent size, the two rotations of the stars. Source work handles old texts and old maps, where the material is a document and not a measurement. Reference and argument covers the glossary, the FAQ, the tests you can run, and the objections page. Almost every file keeps to the same four-part order: what is observed, what the flat-earth reading makes of it, what the mainstream geodetic or astronomical reading makes of the same thing, and what would settle the difference between them.
The reading order
If you want a route through the archive rather than a pile of files, this is the one we suggest. It starts with the index so you can see the ground you are about to cover, puts the two observations everything else leans on first, and leaves the arguments against the reading until you have something to test them against.
- The evidence index — the short list of what exists and how each file is put together. Two minutes, and it stops the rest of the archive feeling random.
- What the horizon does — the observation most people can check the same afternoon, with the conditions and the equipment recorded.
- Water finds its level — the assumption under every canal, aqueduct and long pipeline ever surveyed. Most of the other arguments rest on this one.
- Sun and moon overhead — apparent size through the day, seasons, the analemma, and a moon that rises later each day.
- Two skies, one ceiling — the two star rotations and the pole problem, which is the hardest corner of the reading to answer.
- Six tests you can run yourself — so that you have one measurement of your own rather than ours, before you decide anything.
- The strongest arguments against a level earth — ten of them, stated at full strength with a verdict on each. Read it before you quote any of the above.
- Glossary — the working vocabulary. The files use words such as dip, refraction and azimuthal equidistant precisely, and the glossary is shorter than the arguments about them.
Every page, and what it covers
Fifteen evidence and reference pages, plus the home page and this one. Nothing is left off: if a page exists on the site, it has a row below.
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Home | The opening claim, the four measurements the archive keeps returning to, and cards pointing to the files below. |
| Evidence index | The index to the evidence files, with its own suggested reading order and a note on how each file is assembled. |
| What the horizon does | Ships vanishing hull-first, the horizon sitting at eye level, and level sightlines carried over kilometres of still water — with the geodesy that answers them. |
| Water finds its level | Canals, aqueducts and spirit levelling all treat still water as a plane: what that assumption looks like in practice, and how the geoid answers it. |
| Sun and moon overhead | A sun whose apparent size barely changes, the seasons, the analemma, and a moon that rises later each day — the observations, and the astronomy they meet. |
| Two skies, one ceiling | Northern and southern star trails turning opposite ways round two different hubs, while star positions look fixed to the eye — and the pole problem. |
| The firmament in the old texts | What the raqia of Genesis 1, the Septuagint's stereoma, the Greek solid heaven and the 1611 English Bible describe overhead, read as text history. |
| Maps drawn level | The azimuthal equidistant projection, the 1892 Gleason map, and why surface routes and flight paths look different on every flat map of the world. |
| The model | The flat-earth model on its own terms: a level plane, a circling sun, a dome, and a community that still disagrees about the sun's distance and height. |
| Six tests you can run yourself | Repeatable tests with ordinary tools — a laser sightline over still water, hull-first ship sightings, solar-noon shadows, canal levels. |
| The strongest objections | Ten arguments against a level earth — gravity, circumnavigation, GPS, Coriolis, Foucault, Eratosthenes — each stated at full strength, each with a verdict. |
| Glossary | Plain-English definitions of the terms both sides use: firmament, raqia, azimuthal equidistant, horizon dip, refraction, oblate spheroid, analemma and more. |
| FAQ | Straight answers on curvature, ships and the horizon, the firmament, gravity, flights, Antarctica and the sun. |
| About | How the archive frames its claims: a belief-based reading, not a scientific finding, plus source labelling, corrections and editorial stance. |
| Contact | What to send — corrections, observations, source pointers — and what the archive does not take. |
| Privacy | What the site records and what it does not: server logs, an optional email address, no advertising or analytics scripts, and no cookies. |
| Site map (this page) | The reading order, the index you are reading, and the file map below. |
The file map
This part is for anyone who wonders what a site actually is once the design is taken away. A website is a folder of files on a computer somewhere, and every link you click is just a request for one of those files. Here is the whole of this one, in plain words.
| Folder or file | What it is |
|---|---|
| The site folder itself | The one folder that gets published. Every page sits at the top level of it, so there are no subfolders to get lost in and no page is buried behind another. |
| The pages (one .html file each) | Seventeen files, one per page, listed in the table above. Each is a plain text document that any browser can read and print, with no build step in between. |
| css/ → the stylesheets | The design of the site in one folder. main.css holds the whole system — colours, type, tables, callouts — and every page links to it, so a change there changes the whole site at once. Any further sheets in this folder only add to that system. |
| img/ → not present | There are no image files, because there are no photographs on this site. The only graphic is the small round horizon mark in the corner of each page, drawn in code inside the page itself, so it cannot fail to load or go missing. |
| js/ → not present | There is no JavaScript folder, because nothing on this site runs a script after the page arrives. Every answer, table and definition is already in the page's text. |
| downloads/ → not present | Nothing to download: no PDFs, no spreadsheets, no archived files. If a reader wants to keep something, they can print the page or save it. |
| sitemap.xml | A list of the site's pages in a form that search engines read automatically, so a new page is found without anyone submitting it by hand. |
| robots.txt | A one-page note to visiting crawlers saying what they may read. Here it allows everything, and names the AI crawlers explicitly. |
| llms.txt | A plain-text summary of the site — the same page list, with each page's title and description — written for AI assistants that are asked about the material. |
| _TEMPLATE.html | The shell every page is copied from: the header, the footer and the standing note. It is a working file, not a page, so it is not linked and not listed in the sitemap. |
| One level up (the project folder) | The scripts that keep the site honest: one that rebuilds the sitemap and the AI summary from the pages actually on disk, one that handles the monthly email sign-up, and the deploy scripts that copy the folder to the server. Also the backups folder. |
Every file in this archive is shown beside the mainstream account of the same thing, and the mainstream reading of these particular observations is that they are all consistent with an oblate spheroid of radius near 6,371 km, with surface curvature of about 8 cm per kilometre squared, and gravity directed toward the centre of mass. The archive links the specific geodetic and astronomical sources on each page rather than paraphrasing them, and the pages describing that material are written to state it as its own sources do. A site map is not evidence for either reading: it only shows what the archive contains and where each part of it sits, so that a reader can check any single file, and the mainstream answer to it, without reading the rest.
Two smaller notes. The FAQ covers the questions that come up most often in one place, and the About page states plainly how claims are labelled here and how corrections are handled. If a link on this page ever fails, the page it was meant to reach is listed in the table above, and every one of those pages links onward from its own footer.
This page presents the flat-earth interpretation as its subject matter. It is a belief-based reading of the observations, not a scientific finding — see About for how we frame claims and for the mainstream sources.