Wikipedia needs amending
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Level_experiment
Early results seemed to prove the Earth to be flat, but most later attempts to reproduce the observations firmly supported the established view that the Earth is a sphere.
That's total codswallop.
If anyone has a wikipedia account can they at the least bung a [citation needed] after it because the experiment was done 3 times.
1) Rowbotham. Earth shown to be flat.
2) Hampden and Wallace. Result annulled in a court of law.
3) Lady Blount. Earth shown to be flat.
1. Result was as stated
2. Result was not annulled in a court of law. Courts don't have the power to do that. The only thing settled in a court of law was a libel case. Wallace's results showed the earth was not flat.
3. Lady Blount's account differs from those of others present during the experiment, the photographic evidence does not match any of the written accounts, and it is likely that Blount bribed witnesses with sexual favours. Oh, and she was a close friend of Rowbotham.
4. The experiment has been performed several times since and no other results indicating flatness have been demonstrated. Including when it was conducted by Daniel Shenton.