One Hundred Proofs That The Earth Is Not A Globe

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INDEX.

1 The aeronaut sees for himself. 

2 Standing water level. 

3 Surveyors’ “allowance.” 

4 Flow of Rivers—the Nile. 

5 Lighthouses—Cape Hatteras. 

6 The sea-shore.—“Coming up.” 

7 A trip down Chesapeake Bay. 

8 The model globe useless. 

9 The sailor’s level charts. 

10 The mariners’ compass. 

11 The southern circumference. 

12 Circumnavigation of the Earth. 

13 Meridians are straight lines. 

14 Parallels of latitude—circles. 

15 Sailing down and underneath. 

16 Distance round the South. 

17 Levelness required by man. 

18 The “level” of the astronomers. 

19 Half the globe is cut off, now! 

20 No “up” or “down” in nature? 

21 The “spherical lodestone.” 

22 No falsehoods wanted! 

23 No proof of “rotundity.” 

24 A “most complete” failure. 

25 The first Atlantic Cable. 

26 Earth’s “curvature.” 

27 Which end goes down? 

28 A “hill of water.” 

29 Characteristics of a globe. 

30 Horizon—level with the eye. 

31 Much too small a globe. 

32 Vanishing point of objects. 

33 We are not “fastened on.” 

34 Our “antipodes.”—a delusion. 

If the Earth were a globe, there certainly would be—if we could imagine the thing to be peopled all round—“antipodes:” “people who,” says the dictionary, “living exactly on the opposite side of the globe to ourselves, have their feet opposite to ours:”—people who are hanging heads downwards whilst we are standing heads up! But, since the theory allows us to travel to those parts of the Earth where the people are said to be heads downwards, and still to fancy ourselves to be heads upwards and our friends whom we have left behind us to be heads downwards, it follows that the whole thing is a myth—a dream—a delusion—and a snare; and, instead of there being any evidence at all in this direction to substantiate the popular theory, it is a plain proof that the Earth is not a globe.

35 Horizon a level line. 

36 Chesapeake Bay by night. 

37 Six months day and night. 

38 The “Midnight Sun.” 

39 Sun moves round the Earth. 

40 Suez Canal—100 miles—level. 

41 The “true level.”—a curve. 

42 Projectiles—firing east or west. 

43 Bodies thrown upwards. 

44 Firing in opposite direction. 

45 Astronomer Royal of England. 

46 An utterly meaningless theory. 

47 Professor Proctor’s cylinder. 

48 Proctor’s false perspective. 

49 Motion of the clouds. 

50 Scriptural proof—a plane. 

51 The “Standing Order.” 

52 More ice in the south. 

53 Sun’s accelerated pace, south. 

54 Balloons not left behind. 

55 The Moon’s beams are cold. 

56 The Sun and Moon. 

57 Not Earth’s shadow at all. 

58 Rotating and revolving. 

59 Proctor’s big mistake. 

60 Sun’s distance from Earth. 

61 No true “measuring-rod.” 

62 Sailing “round” a thing. 

63 Telescopes—“hill of water.” 

64 The laws of optics—Glaisher. 

65 “Dwelling” upon error. 

66 Ptolemy’s predictions. 

67 Canal in China—700 miles. 

68 Mr. Lockyer’s false logic. 

69 Beggarly alternatives. 

70 Mr. Lockyer’s suppositions. 

71 North Star seen from S. lat. 

72 “Walls not parallel!” 

73 Pendulum experiments. 

74 “Delightful uncertainty.” 

75 Outrageous calculations. 

76 J. R. Young’s Navigation. 

77 “Tumbling over.” 

78 Circumnavigation—south. 

79 A disc—not a sphere. 

80 Earth’s “motion” unproven. 

81 Moon’s motion east to west. 

82 All on the wrong track. 

83 No meridianal “degrees.” 

84 Depression of North Star. 

85 Rivers flowing up-hill? 

86 100 miles in five seconds. 

87 Miserable makeshifts. 

88 What holds the people on. 

89 Luminous objects. 

90 Practice against theory. 

91 Unscientific classification. 

92 G. B. Airy’s “suppositions.” 

93 Astronomers give up theory. 

94 School-room “proofs” false. 

95 Pictorial proof—Earth a plane. 

96 Laws of perspective ignored. 

97 “Rational suppositions.” 

98 It is the star that moves. 

99 Hair-splitting calculation. 

100 How “time” is lost or gained.

ONE HUNDRED PROOFS THAT THE EARTH IS NOT A GLOBE.

Dedicated to R. A. PROCTOR, Esq.

BY WM. CARPENTER.

"UPRIGHT, DOWNRIGHT, STRAIGHTFORWARD."

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LIBRARY OF OF CONGRES COPYRIGHT - DEC 17 1886 - CITY OF WASHINGTON.

BALTIMORE:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, No. 71 Chew Street.

1885