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[Entered at Stationer’s Hall.]
ZETETIC ASTRONOMY.
EARTH NOT A GLOBE!
AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY
INTO THE
TRUE FIGURE OF THE EARTH:
PROVING IT A PLANE,
WITHOUT AXIAL OR ORBITAL MOTION;
AND THE
ONLY MATERIAL WORLD
IN
THE UNIVERSE!
BY “PARALLAX.”
London:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS’ HALL COURT.
Bath:
S. HAYWARD, GREEN STREET.
1865.
[The Right of Translation is Reserved by the Author.]
BATH:
PRINTED BY S. HAYWARD, GREEN STREET.
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GENERAL CONTENTS.
Introduction—Experiments proving the Earth to be a Plane.
The Earth no Axial or Orbital Motion.
The true distance of the Sun and Stars.
The Sun moves in a Circle over the Earth, concentric withthe North Pole.
Diameter of Sun’s path constantly changing.
Cause of Day and Night, Seasons, &c.
Cause of “Sun rise” and “Sun set.”
Cause of Sun appearing larger when “Arising” and “Setting”than when on the Meridian.
SECTION IX.[iv]
Cause of Solar and Lunar Eclipses.
Cause of Tides.
Constitution, Condition, and ultimate Destruction of the Earthby Fire.
Miscellanea—Moon’s Phases—Moon’s appearance—PlanetNeptune—Pendulum Experiments as Proofs of Earth’s motion.
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