So, are you just going to continue to ignore the facts, because they do not accommodate your beliefs? That's not being very clever.

Real science does not claim to 'prove' anything. Science either supports a theory or disproves it.

For one, sticking with the single story that you brought up, Alfred Wallace's demonstration actually supports the findings that there is a curvature consistent with a spherical Earth. He also disproved Rowbotham's findings by showing that Rowbotham's experiment was flawed.