There have been several concave earth books written over the years that I’ve found but as far as I can tell there’s only been two ever written in English. There’s the classic Cellular Cosmogony and a lesser known one called Mechanical Proof the Earth is not a Globe.
I’ve been using deepL to translate Karl Neupert’s Geokosmos, which you can find ln the mega drive collection from this site
The process is slow going but by opening up a pdf in a web browser you get Google’s built in PDF scanning function that lets you click and drag to highlight a page of text then it’s a simple copy and paste in to deepL.
Well it’s almost as simple as that I should say. German doesn’t have a word for word translation into English and after you copy and paste the text, remove all the extra newlines and hyphens, you can translate a page of text in about 30 minutes by clicking on sections and changing grammar from deepL’s drop-down options. Occasionally there isn’t a good option and you have to take the liberty of translating it yourself while maintaining the author’s intent. At 30 minutes a page and 150 pages this book can be translated in 75 hours.
Help me. Take a chapter and let’s split this thing up. There’s at least 4 concave earth books that can be translated in this way and we will have a solid foundation to build a better model on
From the looks of it, “Geokosmos” seems like a plagiarism of “Die Hohlwelttheorie” by Johannes Lang, which dates from the 1930s.
I could be wrong.
I will take a closer look at the PDF file though.
In fact, the book “Geokosmos” completely passed me by, although I have been intensively studying the concave earth for over a decade.
Since I am German, I will have a look whether this might be worth the effort of translating or whether one should stick to the supposed original.
I can only recommend “Die Hohlwelttheorie” without hesitation. It is extremely readable and written with wit and esprit. I own the book in the original. And I enjoyed reading it again and again.
The two books could be very similar, they actually coauthored a book together as well
I was planning on translating all three of these just to have because there is only the two concave earth books in English. Any help would be appreciated, I’ve finished chapter 1 on Geokosmos and am currently working through chapter 2
I’m reading through the uploaded pages of Mechanical Proof the Earth is not a Globe. I really need to start searching for interesting books on this topic. I like the humor of the Mechanical Proof the Earth is not a Globe…
Then I was uploading each image at a time to Google Translate webpage, which took forever, so I found a better solution.
Tori Translate
I bought 6000 credits for 13 bucks. (1 credit is 1 image translated)
They give you 15 free credits if you want to try.
TT allows batch image translation (300 at a time) This saves so much time.
It has options for different fonts, and different AI models to translate from.
For web browsing, there’s a TT plugin to translate the font of images in real time. This solves the problem with the Google Translation chromium plugin, since it only translates text.
I’ve found that Google Translation webpage still does a better job with some diagrams and illustrations
Now I just reverse the process and combine all the translated JPGs into a PDF with a few clicks:
