Zetetic Astronomy Earth Not a Globe. Samuel Rowbotham

      [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.

      GENERAL CONTENTS.

      SECTION I.

      Introduction—Experiments proving the Earth to be a Plane.

      SECTION II.

      The Earth no Axial or Orbital Motion.

      SECTION III.

      The true distance of the Sun and Stars.

      SECTION IV.

      The Sun moves in a Circle over the Earth, concentric with the North Pole.

      SECTION V.

      Diameter of Sun’s path constantly changing.

      SECTION VI.

      Cause of Day and Night, Seasons, &c.

      SECTION VII.

      Cause of “Sun rise” and “Sun set.”

      SECTION VIII.

      Cause of Sun appearing larger when “Arising” and “Setting” than when on the Meridian.

      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 Proofs of Earth’s motion.

      SECTION XIII.

      Perspective on the Sea.

      SECTION XIV.

      General Summary—Application—”Cui Bono.”