One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is not a Globe by Wm. Carpenter. The Flat Earth Theory. Whenever experiments have been tried on the surface of standing water, this surface has always been found to be level. If the Earth were a globe, the surface of all standing water would be convex. This is an experimental proof that Earth is not a globe. Seven-hundred miles is said to be the length of the great Canal, in China. Certain it is that, when this canal was formed, no