Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 60 EXPERIMENT 15. From the first floor of the "grand" hotel, opposite the new or western pier, at Brighton, in Sussex, a well-constructed instrument, called a "Clinometer," was "levelled," and directed towards...
General : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 417 GENERAL INDEX. Account of the Experiment on Old Bedford Bridge, on March 5th, 1870 268 Actual position of the earth in the universe 195 Admiral Coupvent de Bois on the height of ocean waves 222 A gre...
Chapter Xv. General Summary Application Cui Bono : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 347 CHAPTER XV. GENERAL SUMMARY--APPLICATION--CUI BONO. IN the preceding chapters it has been shown that the Copernican or Newtonian theory of astronomy is an "absurd composition of truth and error;" and, as admitted...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 18 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], DEGREES OF LONGITUDE. Another argument for the globular form of the earth is the following:--The degrees of longitude, radiating from the north, gradually increase in extent as they approach the equator; beyond which...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 11 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], CONTINUED DAYLIGHT IN THE EXTREME SOUTH. IF the earth is a revolving globe, moving rapidly in an orbit round the sun, with its axes of revolution inclined to the plane of the ecliptic, as the Newtonian hypothesis...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 06 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], DEFLECTION OF FALLING BODIES. "The falling of bodies from high places is a further proof of the daily rotation of the earth. By this motion everything upon the earth describes a circle, which is larger in proporti...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 15 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], TANGENTIAL HORIZON. IF a theodolite is placed on the sea shore, "levelled," and directed towards the sea, the line of the horizon will be a given amount below the cross-hair, and a certain "dip" or inclinati...
Chapter Iv. The True Form And Magnitude : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 88 CHAPTER IV. THE TRUE FORM AND MAGNITUDE OF THE EARTH. THE facts and experiments already advanced render it undeniable, that the surface of all the waters of the earth is horizontal; and that, however irregular...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 02 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], TRANSMISSION OF LIGHT. "The progressive transmission of light being established, let us deduce from it our demonstration of the earth's rotation. If the earth is immoveable we ought not to see the stars the moment they...
Chapter I. Zetetic And Theoretic Defined : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 1 ZETETIC ASTRONOMY. CHAPTER I. ZETETIC AND THEORETIC DEFINED AND COMPARED. THE term Zetetic is derived from the Greek verb "Zeteo"; which means to search, or examine; to proceed only by inquiry; to take nothing...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 03 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 322 STATIONS AND RETROGRADATION OF PLANETS. THE planets are sometimes seen to move from east to west, sometimes from west to east, and sometimes to appear stationary, and it is contended that "the hypothesis...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 07 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], RAILWAYS, AND "EARTH'S CENTRIFUGAL FORCE." "Another proof of the diurnal motion of the earth has been made manifest since the introduction of railways. On railways running due north and south in the northern hemisphere...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 19 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 251 SPHERICITY INEVITABLE FROM SEMI-FLUIDITY. An argument for the earth's rotundity is thought, by many, to be found in the following facts: "Fluid or semi-fluid substances in a state of motion invariably assume...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 13 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], GREAT CIRCLE SAILING. AMONG landsmen a great amount of misconception prevails as to what is really meant by the so-called "great circle sailing;" and notwithstanding that the subject is very imperfectly understood...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 09 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], LUNAR ECLIPSE A PROOF OF ROTUNDITY. ALTHOUGH the subject of lunar eclipses has already been discussed, it is again briefly noticed because it forms one of the category of supposed evidences of the earth's rotundity...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 17 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], "SPHERICAL EXCESS." As a proof of the earth's rotundity, many place great reliance upon what is called the "spherical excess," which has been observed on making trigonometrical observations on a large scale. "The angles...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 05 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], GOOSE ROASTING BY REVOLVING FIRE. As an instance of the logical dilemma produced by theory and false doctrine, it may be mentioned that when it is proved by the most direct and practical evidence that the earth is...
Title Page : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. iii ZETETIC ASTRONOMY. EARTH NOT A GLOBE. AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY INTO THE TRUE FIGURE OF THE EARTH, PROVING IT A PLANE, WITHOUT ORBITAL OR AXIAL MOTION, AND THE ONLY KNOWN MATERIAL WORLD; ITS TRUE POSITI...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 33 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], MOON'S PHASES. IT has been shown that the moon is not a reflector of the sun's light, but is self-luminous. That the luminosity is confined to one-half its surface is sufficiently shown by the fact that at "new moon"...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 12 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 18 EXPERIMENT 4. On several occasions the six miles of water in the old Bedford Canal have been surveyed by the so-called "forward" process of levelling, which consisted in simply taking a sight of, say 20 chains...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 08 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], EXPERIMENT 8. A very striking illustration of the true form of the sea horizon may be observed from the high land in the neighbourhood of the head of Portsmouth Harbour. Looking across Spithead to the Isle of Wight...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 16 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 9 CHAPTER II. EXPERIMENTS DEMONSTRATING THE TRUE FORM OF STANDING WATER, AND PROVING THE EARTH TO BE A PLANE. IF the earth is a globe, and is 25,000 English statute miles in circumference, the surface of all standing...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 29 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], Every point of importance has now been fairly considered, and shown to be either unconnected or inconsistent with the assumption of the earth's rotundity and diurnal and orbital motions. It is most important...
Preface To The Second Edition : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. v PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. To the various critics who reviewed unfavourably the first edition of this work, and to those also who wrote and published replies to it, my thanks are due and now respectfully...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 21 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], VARIABILITY OF PENDULUM VIBRATIONS. Many contend that because a pendulum vibrates more rapidly in the northern region than "at the equator, the earth is thereby proved not only to be a globe, but to have axial moti...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES. THE Copernican or Newtonian theory of astronomy requires that the "axis of the earth is inclined 23 28 to that of the ecliptic." "And from observation it is found that the sun does not every...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 04 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], EXPERIMENT 12. On the shore near Waterloo, a few miles to the north of Liverpool, a good telescope was fixed, at an elevation of 6 feet above the water. It was directed to a large steamer, just leaving the River Mersey...
Parallax' And His Teachings. Opinions Of The Press : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 402 "PARALLAX" AND HIS TEACHINGS. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "TROWBRIDGE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.--On Monday and Tuesday evenings last two lectures were delivered by a gentleman adopting the name of 'Parallax,' to prove...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 25 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], HOW THE EARTH IS CIRCUM-NAVIGATED. Another "proof" of the earth's rotundity is supposed to be found in the fact that mariners by sailing continually p. 224 due east or west, return home in the opposite direction. This...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 31 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 337 MOON TRANSPARENT. IT is more than three centuries and a half since Fernando de Magulhane observed that the moon, during a solar eclipse, was not perfectly opaque. He says:-- "On the forenoon of October 11th, 1520...
Chapter Vi. The Sun's Motion, Concentric : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 105 CHAPTER VI. THE SUN'S MOTION, CONCENTRIC WITH THE POLAR CENTRE. As the earth has been proved to be fixed, the motion of the sun is a visible reality. If it be observed from any latitude a few degrees north...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 10 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 23 EXPERIMENT 6. The following important experiment has recently been tried at Brighton, in Sussex. On the new or Western Pier a good theodolite was fixed, at an elevation of 30 feet above the water, and directed...
Chapter Vii. The Sun's Path Expands And Contracts : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 108 CHAPTER VII. THE SUN'S PATH EXPANDS AND CONTRACTS DAILY FOR SIX MONTHS ALTERNATELY. Tins is a matter of absolute certainty; proved by what is called, in technical language, the northern and southern declinati...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 14 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], EXPERIMENT 2. Along the edge of the water, in the same canal, six flags were placed, one statute mile from each other, and so arranged that the top of each flag was 5 feet above the surface. Close to the last flag...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 23 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], DECLINATION OF THE POLE STAR. Another phenomenon supposed to prove rotundity, is thought to be the fact that Polaris, or the north polar star p. 231 sinks to the horizon as the traveller approaches the equ...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 02 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], EXPERIMENT 14. If a good theodolite is placed on the summit of Shooter's Hill, in Kent, and "levelled", the line of sight, on being directed to Hampstead Hill, will cut the cross on St. Paul's Cathedral, and fall up...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 06 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], EXPERIMENT 10. If we stand upon the deck of a ship, or mount to the mast-lead, or ascend above the earth in a balloon and look over the p. 36 sea, the surface appears as a vast inclined plane rising up from beneath us...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 27 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], PERSPECTIVE ON THE SEA. We have now to consider a very important modification of this phenomenon, namely, that whereas in the several instances illustrated by diagrams Nos. 71 to 84 inclusive, when the lower parts...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 34 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], THE PLANET NEPTUNE. FOR some years the advocates of the earth's rotundity, and of the Newtonian philosophy generally, were accustomed to refer, with an air of pride and triumph, to the supposed discovery of a new planet...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 15 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], EXPERIMENT 1. A boat, with a flag-staff, the top of the flag 5 feet above the surface of the water, was directed to sail from a place called "Welche's Dam" (a well-known ferry passage), to another called "Welney Bridge...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 11 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], EXPERIMENT 5. Although the experiments already described, and many similar ones, have been tried and often repeated, first in 1838, afterwards in 1844, in 1849, in 1856, and in 1862, the author was induced in 1870...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 30 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], SHADOWS ON THE MOON. THERE seems to be a thorough conviction in the minds of the Newtonian theorists that many of the dark places on the moon are the shadows of mountains, and very graphic descriptions are given...
Chapter X. Cause Of Sun Appearing Larger : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 128 CHAPTER X. CAUSE OF SUN APPEARING LARGER WHEN RISING AND SETTING THAN AT NOONDAY. IT is well known that when a light of any kind shines through a dense medium it appears larger, or rather gives a greater "glare,"...
Chapter Iii. The Earth No Axial Or Orbital Motion : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 62 CHAPTER III. THE EARTH NO AXIAL OR ORBITAL MOTION. IF a ball is allowed to drop from the mast-head of a ship at rest, it will strike the deck at the foot of the mast. If the same experiment is tried with a ship...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 26 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 222 If it is argued that "there are times when the surface of the sea is perfectly calm, and that at such times at least, if the earth is a plane, the telescope ought to restore the hull of a ship, irrespective...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 07 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], EXPERIMENT 9. The distance across St. George's Channel, between Holyhead and Kingstown Harbour, near Dublin, is at least 60 statute miles. It is not an uncommon thing for passengers to notice, when in, ...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 03 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 47 EXPERIMENT 13. The following sketch, fig. 34, represents a contracted section of the London and North-Western Railway, from London to FIG. 34. [paragraph continues] Liverpool, through Birmingham. The line A, B, is...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 22 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], THE "DIP SECTOR." One of the most plausible and yet most fallacious arguments for the earth's rotundity is that supposed to be drawn from observations with an instrument called a "Dip Sector." Sir John F. W. Herschel, 1...
Chapter V. The True Distance Of The Sun : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 99 CHAPTER V. THE TRUE DISTANCE OF THE SUN. IT is now demonstrated that the earth is a plane, and therefore the distance of the sun may be readily and most accurately ascertained by the simplest possible process...
Chapter Ix. Cause Of Sunrise And Sunset : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 124 CHAPTER IX. CAUSE OF SUNRISE AND SUNSET. ALTHOUGH the sun is at all times above the earth's surface, it appears in the morning to ascend from the north-east to the noonday position, and thence to descend...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 28 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 201 CHAPTER XIV. EXAMINATION OF THE SO-CALLED "PROOFS" OF THE EARTH'S ROTUNDITY.--WHY A SHIP'S HULL DISAPPEARS BEFORE THE MAST-HEAD. IT has already been proved that the astronomers of the Copernican school merely...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 09 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], EXPERIMENT 7. The sea horizon, to whatever distance it extends to the right and left of an observer on land, always appears as a perfectly straight line, as represented by H, H, in fig. 16. Not only does FIG. 16. it...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 13 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], EXPERIMENT 3. A good theodolite was placed on the northern bank of the canal, midway between Welney Bridge and the Old Bedford Bridge, which are fully six miles apart, as shown in diagram, fig. 7. The line of sight...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 32 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], MOON'S APPEARANCE. ASTRONOMERS have indulged in imagination to such a degree that the moon is now considered to be a solid, opaque spherical world, having mountains, valleys, lakes, or seas, volcanic craters, and other...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 24 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], LOSS OF TIME ON SAILING WESTWARD. Captain Sir J. C. Ross, at p. 132 of his "Antarctic Voyages," says:-- p. 229 "November 25th. Having by sailing to the eastward gained 12 hours, it became necessary, on crossing...
Chapter Ii. Experiments Demonstrating. Part 05 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], EXPERIMENT 11. On the eastern pier at Brighton (Sussex) a large wooden quadrant was fixed on a stand, the upper surface placed square to a plumb line, and directed towards the east, then to the south, and afterwards...
Chapter Xii. The Cause Of Tides : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 158 CHAPTER XII. THE CAUSE OF TIDES. IT has been shown that the doctrine of the earth's rotundity is simply a plausible theory, having no practical foundation; all ideas, therefore, of "centre of attracti...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 20 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], ARCS OF THE MERIDIAN. The discrepancies and anomalies so often observed in pendulum experiments, have led the followers of Newton to seek the desired evidence in measurements of arcs of the meridian; but here again they...
List Of Diagrams : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. ix LIST OF DIAGRAMS. FIG. PAGE 1.--Showing that if the earth is a globe every part of the surface of standing water must be an arc of a circle 9 2.--Showing that if the earth is a globe the surface of six miles...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 16 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], THEODOLITE TANGENT. IF a spirit-level or a theodolite is "levelled," and a given point be read on a graduated staff at the distance of say 100 chains, this point will have an altitude slightly in excess of the altitude...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 08 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], In the "Liverpool Mercury" of May 23, 1851, the following letter appeared: THE SUPPOSED MANIFESTATION OF THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH. "SIR,--The French, English, and European continental journals have given publicity...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 12 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], MOTION OF STARS NORTH AND SOUTH. IT has often been urged that the earth must be a globe, because the stars in the southern "hemisphere" move round a south polar star; in the same way that those of the north revolve...
Chapter Viii. Cause Of Day And Night, Winter : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 111 CHAPTER VIII. CAUSE OF DAY AND NIGHT, WINTER AND SUMMER; AND THE LONG ALTERNATIONS OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS AT THE NORTHERN CENTRE. IT is a well-established fact that light and heat radiate equally in all directions...
List Of Works, Newspapers, Periodicals, Published : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 426 LIST OF WORKS, NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, PUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE, AND SCRIPTURE TEXTS REFERRED TO OR QUOTED FROM. A Christian Philosopher of the last Century 356 All the Year Round 144 Analysis of Newton's...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 04 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], DIFFERENCE IN SOLAR AND SIDEREAL TIMES. IT is found by observation that the stars come to the meridian about four minutes earlier every twenty-four hours than the sun, taking the solar time as the standard. This makes...
Chapter Xiii. The Earth's True Positi : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 177 CHAPTER XIII. THE EARTH'S TRUE POSITION IN THE UNIVERSE; COMPARATIVELY RECENT FORMATION; PRESENT CHEMICAL CONDITION; AND APPROACHING DESTRUCTION BY FIRE. IT has been demonstrated that the earth is a plane...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 14 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 276 STATIONS AND DISTANCES. "The most complete proof that the earth is a globe consists in the fact that travellers over its surface, whether by sea or land, always find the distance between different stations...
Chapter Xiv. Examination Of The So Called. Part 10 : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 300 ANALOGY IN FAVOUR OF ROTUNDITY. To those who are not strictly logical, a favourite "argument," in support of the earth's globular form, is "that as all the heavenly bodies are worlds, and visibly round, may, not...
Chapter Xi. Cause Of Solar And Lunar Eclipses : * "Zetetic Astronomy", by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], p. 130 CHAPTER XI. CAUSE OF SOLAR AND LUNAR ECLIPSES. A SOLAR eclipse is the result simply of the moon passing between the sun and the observer on earth. But that an eclipse of the moon arises from a shadow of the earth...
