Parallax was a Flat Earth Theorist, and Worked To Educate Others About Why He Believed the Earth Was Flat Instead Of A Planet. This 3rd Edition of Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe was written in 1881 By Parallex, who was also known as Samuel Birley Rowbotham. _Zetetic Astronomy A Description Of Several Experiments Which Prove That The Surface Of The Sea Is A Perfect Plane And That The Earth Is Not A Globe By Parallax Various chapters concern motion of the heavenly bodies, sunrises, sunsets, the tidal movements, and distances of the Sun and Moon from Earth. Most of these are framed with illustrations and diagrams, that the reader understands Rowbotham's notions. Experiments and demonstrations are conducted in support of the Earth being flat, with the astronomical bodies situated above, rather than around it. In 1881 the author expanded and published this book, in part to meet public and scientific scrutiny. Rowbotham was already an inventor and author, and over time theories of Zetetic Astronomy - in which the Earth is flat - became popular. This book began as a pamphlet in the 1840s, explaining the theory with a few sketches alongside. This premium edition contains all of Rowbotham's original graphs, charts and drawings.

Samuel Birley Rowbotham advances the Flat Earth theory, which holds that Earth is not in fact an oblate spheroid planet, but an enclosed plane above which the astronomical bodies are situated. ***Completely revised version of the original 1904 edition*** 'The hypothesis of a universal force called Gravitation is based upon, and was indeed invented with a view to support another hypothesis, namely, that the earth and sea together make up a vast globe, whirling away through space, and therefore needing some force or forces to guide it in its mad career, and so control it as to make it conform to what is called its annual orbit round the sun! The theory first of all makes the earth to be a globe then not a perfect globe, but an oblate spheroid, flattened at the 'poles' then more oblate, until it was in danger of becoming so flattened that it would be like a cheese and, passing over minor variations of form, we are finally told that the earth is pear-shaped, and that the 'elipsoid has been replaced by an apoid!' What shape it may assume next we cannot tell it will depend upon the whim or fancy of some astute and speculating 'scientist.'' General Summary-Application-Cui Bono'Parallax' And His Teachings. Examination of the So-Called 'Proofs' Of the Earth's Rotundity.-Why a Ship's Hull Disappears Before the Mast-HeadXV. The Earth's True Position in the Universe Comparatively Recent Formation Present Chemical Condition And Approaching Destruction by FireXIV. Cause of Sun Appearing Larger When Rising and Setting Than at NoondayXI. Cause of Day and Night, Winter and Summer And the Long altErnations of Light and Darkness at The Northern CentreIX. The Sun's Path Expands and Contracts Daily for Six Months AlternatelyVIII. The Sun's Motion, Concentric With the Polar CentreVII. The True Form and Magnitude of the EarthV. Experiments Demonstrating the True Form of Standing Water, and Proving the Earth to Be a PlaneIII. Zetetic and Theoretic Defined and ComparedII. W e subm it the follow ing chapters to our fellow Zetetics as an honest a ttem p t to explain celestial phenom ena, especially in the South, w hich have not yet been explained on Z etetic lines.This classic includes the following chapters: I. W hile, as Zetetics, we are not called upon to explain phenom ena, or construct hypothetical astronom ical systems, it is our duty to show how far popular hypotheses fail, because the popular theory is m ade the basis of a ttacks upon the cosmogony of the Bible. O ur object, in the follow ing chapters, is to exam ine these reasonings, and to show th a t their conclusions are false, and their facts non-existent. Inasm uch as the great tem pta tion of a ll scientists is to conclude their reasonings before they have obtained all their d a ta the result is th a t their facts are based on in sufficient evidence.

It was the late R ichard Proctor who defined astronom y as a science whose facts are based upon reasoning. TO W H O M T H E C O P Y R I G H T BE LON GS. Prin ted and Published by L a d y B l o u n t, i i, G loucester Road, K ingston H ill, Surrey, S H h N T U N, Sec., L O N D O N KD., D O V E R, E N G. Printed and Published by L a d y B l o u n t, i i, Gloucester Road, Kingston Hill, Surrey, SHOWING THE USELESSNESS OF THE GRAVITATION THEORY,etc.

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