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Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Davey, F.Z.S., George (illustrator). Second Edition. 1873 at title page. Stated Second Edition - Revised and Enlarged. Black modern buckram (cloth) boards, gilt impressed spine titles, light shelf wear. Pages very good with attractive toning. Small circular stamp at title page and few others: "Discard Authorized April 1985". Illustrated throughout with informative diagrams and designs by George Davey; and, each chapter is followed with a decorative vignette. Bind fine; hinges intact. Thick white endpapers; few pencilled notes at front blank endpaper. Adjacent "Parallax" at title page someone has signed in pencil: "John Hampden"; apparently as the author's potential identity. Actually, John Hampden was a Christian polemicist and leading advocate of Rowbotham. Hampden gained notoriety engaging in raucous public debates with endorsed scientists of the day. A bet involving the prominent naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the famous Bedford Level experiment led to several lawsuits. Full title: "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 Position in the Universe, Comparatively Recent Formation, Present Chemical Condition, and Approaching Destruction by Fire. &c., &c., &c. By 'Parallax.' Author of 'Patriarchal Longevity,' and other works; and founder of the Modern Zetetic Philosophy. The Illustrations by George Davey, F.Z.S." This fleshed out second edition began as a sixteen-page pamphlet in 1849, then was expanded into the 1865 first edition, and this revised and enlarged second edition was published in 1873. Contents: "Chapter I. Zetetic and Theoretic Defined and Compared; II. Experiments Demonstrating the True Form of Standing Water, and Proving the Earth to be a Plane; III. The Earth and Axial or Orbital Motion; IV. The True Form and Magnitude of the Earth; V. The True Distance of the Sun; VI. The Sun's Motion Concentric with Polar Centre; VII. The Sun's Path Expands and Contracts Daily for Six Months Alternately; VIII. Cause of Day and Night, Winter and Summer, and the Long Alternations of Light and Darkness at the Northern Centre; IX. Cause of Sunrise and Sunset; X. Cause of Sun Appearing Larger when Rising and Setting Than at Noonday; XI. Cause of Solar and Lunar Eclipses; XII. The Cause of Tides; XIII. The Earth's True Position in the Universe; Comparatively Recent Formation; Present Chemical Condition, and Approaching Destruction by Fire; XIV. Examination of the So-Called Proofs of the Earth's Rotundity; Why a Ship's Hull Disappears Before the Masthead; XV. General Summary - Application - 'Cui Bono?'" Also, in truth-seeking zetetic manner is fourteen-page section at end offering "Opinions of the Press" entitled "'Parallax' and His Teachings." Final printed page is advert with future map and title from Rowbotham: "The New Map of the World (Zetetic Projection), with Moveable Disc, Illustrating the True Cause of Various Phenomena." And, "The Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ Zetetically Considered. Showing the Foundations of Religion and the Realities of Christianity." Includes a detailed fourteen-page index. Printed by John B. Day, "Savoy Steam Press," Savoy Street, Strand. 430 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.

Zustand: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Klappentextrnrn2017 Reprint of 1865 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Zetetic Astronomy is a key work of flat-earth thought, just as Donnelly s Atlantis, the Antediluvian World i.

The origins of Flat Earth Theory Two printed broadsides (375 by 250 mm and 430 by 280 mm), with drop-head titles, text printed in two columns, with woodcut illustrations, light toning. Two exceptionally rare broadsides concerning flat earth theory. As a young man, English inventor, writer and general con-artist Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884) spent his time organising a cooperative community in Cambridgeshire, inspired by his utopian socialist ideals. While working as part of this community, he first formulated his ideas about the shape of the Earth, after observing a lack of curvature on the drainage ditches of the Old Bedford River. The straight 21 mile stretch of the Bedford Levels was enough to convince Rowbotham that the Earth was in fact flat. He soon began lecturing on his marvellous new theory, which he named zetetic astronomy and which propounded a model of the Earth as a flat disc centred around the North Pole and bounded by a perimeter wall of ice. Rowbotham seems not to have fully explored all the implications of his idea, however, as he once fled from one of his own lectures, which had a sixpence entry fee, when asked to explain why a ship's hull disappears before its mast when sailing out to see. Nonetheless he persisted with the theory and in 1849 published under the pseudonym "Parallax" a 16-page pamphlet, which was expanded into a book in 1865 and then extended into a third edition of 430 pages in 1881. In the intervening years, Rowbotham had had 17 known children, at least one of whom he accidentally killed through poisoning. Indeed, he was found responsible for a number of other deaths from the quack cure of phosphorus, which he sold under the name of Dr Samuel Birley. Among his other questionable pursuits was the invention of a "life-preserving cylindrical railway carriage", for which he secured a patent. Naturally, Rowbotham also founded a society with branches in both London and New York: the magazine of the Universal Zetetic Society, entitledThe Earth Not a Globe Review,remained active until the early part of the twentieth century. After a slow decline the movement was revived in 1956 as The Flat Earth Society. The present broadsheets present Rowbotham's theory in the form of an illustrated summary, complete with ten woodcuts depicting experiments, diagrams and cross-sections, and an advertisement for a series of upcoming lectures at Castle-St., Aylesbury in November 1857. According to his astronomy, the world's continents float on an infinite ocean which has a layer of fire underneath, and the lands we know are surrounded by an infinite wilderness of ice and snow, beyond the Antarctic Ocean, bordered by an immense circular ice cliff.