The only direct proofs offered are the peculiarities attending the oscillations of a long pendulum, and the tendency of railway carriages to be thrown off the rails when running on lines in a due northerly or southerly direction. To explain day and night, the earth was assumed to revolve once in twenty-four hours. Which have been adduced as proofs of the earth's motion. The same charge may be made against the few instances Thus we have seen that in every instance where the attempt is made to prove the rotundity of the earth, the premises do not warrant the conclusion, which is premature-drawn before the whole subject is fairly stated and examined, and when other and visible causes are amply sufficient to explain the phenomena, for explanation of which the theory of rotundity was originally framed. Hence to call that an argument for the earth's rotundity, where every necessary proposition is only assumed, and in relation to which direct and practical evidence to the contrary is abundant, is to stultify the judgment and every other reasoning faculty. The contrary has been clearly proved-that the moon is not eclipsed by a shadow that she is self-luminous, and not merely a reflector of solar light, and therefore could not possibly be obscured or eclipsed by a shadow from any object whatever and that the earth is devoid of motion, either on axes or in an orbit through space. It is not proved that the earth moves in an orbit round the sun, and therefore, by being in different positions, conjunction of sun, earth, and moon, 'Day some-times occur. That the moon receives her light from the sun, and that therefore her surface is darkened by the earth intercepting the sun's light, is not proved. That the eclipsor of the moon is a shadow at all is assumption-no proof whatever is offered. Not a plane sometimes cast a shadow edgewise, which, on the moon, would appear as a bar or straight line across it?' Notwithstanding the plausibility of these questions, the essential requirements of an argument are wanting.

'Is not the shadow of the earth, on the moon, always round?' 'Could anything but a globe cast a shadow which at all times, and in all positions, is visibly circular?' 'Would Those who hold that the earth is a globe will often affirm, with marked enthusiasm, that in an eclipse of the moon there is 'proof positive' of rotundity. Samuel Birley Rowbotham),, at ДЄLTHOUGH 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. Sacred Texts Earth Mysteries Index Previous Next Examination of the So-Called ''Proofs'' of the Earth's Rotundity: Lunar Eclipse a Proof of Rotundity Zetetic Astronomy, Earth Not A Globe: Chapter XIV.

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