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ZETETIU ASTRONOMY.
EARTH NOT A GLOBE!
AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY
il'ITO THE
TRUE FIGURE OF THE EARTH :
PROVING
IT
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A
PLANE,
WITHOUT AXIAL OR ORBiTAL MOTION
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ONLY MATERIAL WORLD
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1865.
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GENERAL CONTENTS.
SECTION
I.
Introduction-Experiments proving the .Earth
to
be
a Plane.
SECTION II.
The Earth no Axial or Orbital Motion.
SECTION Ill.
The true distance of the Sun and Stars.
SECTION IV.
The Sun moves in a Circle over the Earth, concentric with
the North Pole.
SECTIONV.
Dilnneter of Sun's path constantly changing.
SECTION VI.
Cause of Day .and Night,·Seasons, &c.
SECTloN
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.
..
VII.
Cause of " Sun rise" and " Sun set."
SECTION VIII.
Cause of Sun appearing larger when "Arising" and "Setting"
than when on the Meridian.
IV.
SECTION IX.
Cause of Solar and Lunar Eclipses.
SECTION X.
Cause of Tides.
SECTION XI
.
Constitution, Condition, and ultimate Destruction of the Earth
by
Fire.
SECTION XII.
Miscellanea-Moon's Phases-Moon's appearance-Planet
Neptune-Pendulum Experiments as Proots of Earth's motion.
SECTION XIII.
Perspective on the Sea.
SECTION XIV.
General Summary-Application-" C111 BoNo. ''
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ZETETIC ASTRONOMY.
term " zetetic " is derived from the Greek
verb
zeteo;
which means to search or examine-
to proceed only by inquiry. None can doubt
that by making special experiments and collect-
ing manifest and undeniable facts, arranging
them in logical order, and observing what is
naturally and fairly deducible, the result will be
far more consistent and satisfactory than by
framing a theory or system and assuming the
existence of causes for which there is no direct
evidence, and which can only be admitted " for
the sake of argument." All theories are of this
character-" supposing instead of inquiring,
imagining systems instead of learning from
observation and experience the true constitution
of things. Speculative men, by the force of genius
may invent systems that will perhaps be greatly
admired for a time; these, however, are phantoms
which the force of truth will sooner or later
dispel ; and while we are pleased with the deceit,
true philosophy, with all the arts and improve-
ments that depend upon it, suffers. The real
state of things escapes our obsenation; or, if it
presents itself to us, we are apt either
to
reject it
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