One Hundred Proofs That the Earth is Not a Globe by W.M. Carpenter

Author:W.M. Carpenter [Carpenter, W.M.]
Language: eng
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ISBN: 9781528705479
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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OKE HUNDEED PEOOP8,

EAETH IS NOT A GLOBE.

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distance 1 And since all this peculation and absurdity is caused by 67. Seven-hundred miles is said to be the length of the great the primary asaftrtiption tbat Eartli is a wandering, heavenly body, Canal, in China. Certain it is that, when this canal was formed, no and is all swept away by a knowledge of the fact th a t E arth ia a

“ allowance” was made for “ curvature.”

Yet the canal is a fact

plane, it is a clear proof that Earth is not a globe.

without it. This is a Chinese proof that the Earth is not a globe.

61. I t is plain th at a theory of measurements without a measuring-68. Mr. J. N. Lockyer says: “ Because the Sun seems to rise in rod is like a ship without a rudder; th at a measure th at is not fixed the east and set in the west, the Earth really spins in the opposite dinot Jikely to be fixed, and never has been fixed, forms no measuring!

rection; that is, from west to east.”

Now, this is no better than

rod at all; and th at as modern theoretical astronomy depends upon though we were to say—Because a man seems to be coming up the the Sun’s distance from the Earth as its measuring-rod, and the disstreet, the street really goes down to the man! And since true science tance is not known, it is a system of measurements without a meas-would contain no such nonsense as this, it follows that the so-called uring-rod—a ship without a rudder. Now, since it is not difEcult to science of theoretical astronomy is not true, and, therefore, we have a foresee the dashing of this thing upon the rock on which Zetetic as.

proof that the Earth is not a globe.

tronomy is founded, it is a proof th at Earth is not a globe.

69. Mr. Lockyer says: “ The appearances connected with the rising 62. I t is commonly asserted th a t “ the Earth must be a globe be

and setting of the Sun and stars may be due either to our earth being cause people have sailed round it.” Now, since this implies that we at rest and the Sun and stars travelling round it, or the earth itself can sail round nothing unless it be a globe, and the fact is well known turning round, while the Sun and stars are at rest.” Now, since true that we can sail round the Earth as a plane, the assertion is ridicuscience does not allow of any suqh beggarly alternatives as these, it lous, and we have another proof that Earth is not a globe.

is plain th at modern theoretical astronomy is not true science, and 63. I t is a fact not so well known as it ought to be that when a that its leading dogma is a fallacy. We have, then, a plain proof that ship, in sailing away from us, has reached the point at which her hull the Earth is not a globe.

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