The Terrestrial Plane: The True Figure of the Earth by Frederick Henry Cook

Author:Frederick Henry Cook [Cook, Frederick Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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T H E T E R R E S T R IA L P L A N E .

F irst, the globularists adm it that the facts observed in N ature relative to this case do not agree with their glo bular th e o ry; that is adopted to throw dust in the eyes o f the people, and to claim honours a proper admission to make.

A theo’iy concerning the operation of to w hich they have no just title … .

T h e public, generally, be

“ refraction,” instead o f clearing up the difiiculty, really adds to the lieve that the longitudes of th e heavenly bodies are calculated on dilemma.

the principles o f N ew ton’s laws.

N othing could be m ore fa ls e .”

H ow are eclipses o f the moon caused ?

Our astronomers o f the

W h at has “ refractio n ” to do in the m atter?

T h e moon has

“ globular theory ” school tell us that a times comes when the earth visibly risen, and the sun has not yet set, in accordance with accurate lies directly betw een the moon and the sun ; the moon is thus alm anac tim e, and an eclipse o f the moon is due, and takes place plunged into “ th e shadow ” o f the earth, the light from the sun that through “ refraction.”

It must be “ refraction,” astronomers say so.

th e moon is siupposed to reflect is intercepted, and the moon is W e will now deal with “ refraction.”

eclipsed.

T h is is very rem arkable, and I doubt its possibility, con

R efraction only operates when our line of sight, or a ray o f light, sidering that even in the, depth o f a total eclipse the moon remains passes from one medium into another of different density.

G et a

visible, and a ctu ally glows with a bright copper coloured h u e ; but b a sin ; p la ce it wherei a light causes part of the rim to cast a shadow there are even greater objections than this against “ the shadow ”

into the b o w l; place, say, a penholder obliquely in the basin and then theor)-.

pour in some water, and you will see that refraction will apparently N ow , according to the “ glo bular th eory,” a lunar eclipse occurs raise the immersed part of th e penholder, w hile th e shadow will go when the sun, earth, and moon are in a d irect lin e ; but it is on record back and down.

Now apply the experim ental know ledge thus gained that since a b o u t th e 15th century over 50 eclipses have occurred to the theory before us.

I f refraction did throw up the sun and w hile both sun and moon have been visible above the horizon. T h e moon,

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