Which is precisely why Rowbotham chose the Bedford River to do his experiment. You cannot claim that refraction had a hand in Oldham's results and not in Rowbotham's, when Rowbotham specifically used that location to avoid having his results affected by refraction. Ridiculous. You cant have it both ways. Dishonest.
Refraction can still occur on the Bedford River, if less frequently. Refraction happens all the time. All of the all-day time lapse scenes I have seen have objects in the background constantly sinking and rising. We are beyond the point of single pictures.
Ben, Taboo Conspiracy, reports that sometimes he is able to see further than the curvature of the earth should allow, and
at other times things appear sunken. He compares the two scenes. In his comparison the sunken scene was more distorted than the flat earth scene. Does refraction make things blurrier or clearer?
Please make a point. Simply saying that the sinking ship effect is a blanket response to any optical observations is just...wrong.
Are you saying that Rowbotham and Blount accounted for refraction and that Oldham did not? How can you even make that statement when you and your wiki have no evidence of this - at least towards Oldham. You don't even go into his results.
Rowbotham conducts several experiments that would necessitate amazing refraction coincidences:
From
Experiment Two of Earth Not a Globe we read:
“ Along the edge of the water, in the same canal, six flags were placed, one statute mile from each other, and so arranged that the top of each flag was 5 feet above the surface. Close to the last flag in the series a longer staff was fixed, bearing a flag 3 feet square, and the top of which was 8 feet above the surface of the water--the bottom being in a line with the tops of the other and intervening flags, as shown in the following diagram, Fig, 4. ”
“ On looking with a good telescope over and along the flags, from A to B, the line of sight fell on the lower part of the larger flag at B. The altitude of the point B above the water at D was 5 feet, and the altitude of the telescope at A above the water at C was 5 feet; and each intervening flag had the same altitude. Hence the surface of the water C, D, was equidistant from the line of sight A, B; and as A B was a right line, C, D, being parallel, was also a right line; or, in other words, the surface of the water, C, D, was for six miles absolutely horizontal.
If the earth is a globe, the series of flags in the last experiment would have had the form and produced the results represented in the diagram, Fig. 5. The water curvating from ”
“ C to D, each flag would have been a given amount below the line A, B. The first and second flags would have determined the direction of the line of sight from A to B, and the third flag would have been 8 inches below the second; the fourth flag, 32 inches; the fifth, 6 feet; the sixth, 10 feet 8 inches; and the seventh, 16 feet 8 inches; but the top of the last and largest flag, being 3 feet higher than the smaller ones, would have been 13 feet 8 inches below the line of sight at the point B. ”
On analysis of this experiment, if the earth were a globe, it would be quite the coincidence that the flags all experienced the Flat Earth refraction effect, one by one, all the way down to the end, which projected each flag into the air at the
exact height they needed to be at in order to make things look flat in accordance with the distance looked across and the height of the observer.