Record

CodePX5538
Dates1819-1891
Person NameHampden; John (1819-1891)
SurnameHampden
Forenames John
ActivityMember of the Flat-earth Society? In 1870 challenged anyone to prove the curvature of the earth by demonstrating the convexity of a body water. WP
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WP/13/1/1Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/13/1/15Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/13/1/8Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/13Papers re Flat Earth controversy
WP/13/1/19Writ Wallace v Hampden for libel
WP/13/1/16John Hampden to the Secretary of the Zoological Society of London
WP/13/1/10Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/13/1/17Philip Lutley Sclater to Alfred Russel Wallace
WP/13/1/2Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/13/1/3Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/13/1/13Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/13/1Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/1/5/16Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his wife Annie
WP/13/1/6Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WPAlfred Russel Wallace Family Papers
WP/13/1/12Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/13/1/4Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/13/1/5Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/2/3/36Obituaries and Memoirs of Alfred Russel Wallace
WP/13/1/11Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/13/1/14Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/13/1/9Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
WP/13/1/7Print and correspondence re John Hampden ‘Flat Earth’ controversy
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