GENERAL INDEX.

Zetetic Astronomy, by 'Parallax' (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham), [1881], at sacred-texts.com

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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 great astronomical blunder 330-332

Alternations of light and darkness at the Northern centre 111

Altitude, how to measure 100

Altitude of the lights at Poolbeg, Holyhead, Dunkerque, Cordonan, the Egerö, Madras, the Nicholson in New Zealand, and on Cape Bonavista 28-30

Analogy in favour of rotundity 300

American aëronaut's account of his ascension from Baltimore 37

Ancient philosopher's attempt to discover the source of the tides 165

Apparent concavity of the earth as seen from a balloon 36

Apparent rising of the water and the sea horizon to the level of the eye 40

Approaching destruction of the earth by fire 177, 199, 392

Arago, M., on the supposed movement of the earth 320

Arcs of the meridian 241

Arctic winter and summer described 116

Arguments against the earth's rotundity deduced from the apparent enlargement of the sun when rising and setting 129

Atlantic Ocean, survey of the bed of, proof that the surface of the great waters of the earth is horizontal 54

Atlantic Ocean, table of distances across by the various routes 92

Atmospheric motion 74

Balloon ascents by Mr. Coxwell and Mr. Glashier 38

Balls fired vertically return in the same direction 72

Basil Hall, Captain, on the motion of the higher strata of clouds 76

Battlefields of Alma, Inkerman, and Magenta 384

Bedford Level, experiments on 11

Bedford Old Bridge, account, of experiment on March 5th, 1870 268

Bessel on invisible stars 150

Bishop Wilkins' suggestion of a new and easy way of travelling 77

Bodies projected from other bodies in motion do not exhibit the same behaviour as when projected from bodies at rest 65-69

Brighton, experiment with clinometer at 60

Calculating eclipses and other phenomena 151

Captain Basil Hall's observations from the summit of Peak Teneriffe 76

Captain Beechy's description of the sun describing a circle upon the Southern horizon 106

Cause of apparent rise of a plane towards the axis of the eye 273

Cause of day and night and summer and winter 111

Cause of solar and lunar eclipses 130

Cause of sunrise and sunset 124

Cause of sun appearing larger when rising and setting than at noon-day 128

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Cause of ship's hull disappearing before the masthead 201

Cause of tides 158

Cause of the long alternations of light and darkness at the Northern centre 111

Centre of the earth 88

Chemical condition of the earth 180

Chinese remark concerning the earth going round the sun 368

Circumference of the earth, how to ascertain the 89-98

Circumnavigation of a plane 225

Circumnavigation of the globe 224

Clark, Dr. Adam, on reconciling Scriptures with the Newtonian astronomy 370

Clinometer experiment at Brighton 60 Clouds and bubbles in the moon 336

"Collimation," "divergence," and "refraction,"--experiments to show the meaning of 266

Commander Wilkes, U.S.N., on the extreme cold in the Southern region 179

Comparatively recent formation of the earth 77, 377

Continued daylight in the extreme South 290

Copernican system admitted by its author to be an assumption 2

Copernicus and his theory of terrestrial motions 81

Count Strzelechi's experience of the atmosphere at 6000 feet elevation above that of the trade wind 77

Cui Bono? 395

Curvature in statute miles, table of the 10

Datum line, standing order respecting the 56

Day and night, cause of 111

Declination of the Pole star 230

Definition of the word "Tide" 161

Deflection of falling bodies 313

Degree of latitude, measurement of a, by Eratosthenes, 230 B.C. 246

Degree of latitude, measurement of a, by modern nations 246

Degrees of longitude 253

Depth at which calm water is found in great storms 161

Derivation of the term "Zetetic" 1

Description of the sun, as seen at midnight in Norway 107

Desierto las Palmas, light on the 59

Desolation of the low Southern latitudes 2117

Destruction of the earth by fire 177, 199, 392

Diagrams, list of, see commencement of work.

Diameter of the field of vision 202

Diameter of the earth 98

Difference between the theory of rotundity and the results of actual survey 57

Difference in solar and sidereal times 321

Difficulties raised by scientific objectors to Scriptural authority 393

Difficulties which render the theory of the earth's rotundity contradictory 158

Dimensions of ocean waves 222

Dipping needle, the 227

"Dip Sector," the 232

Distance from London Bridge to the sea coast at Brighton 102

Distance of the sun, processes of ascertaining the 99-103

Distances across the Atlantic by the various routes 92

Distances which various volcanoes project lava, ashes, and flames 188

Doctrine of earth's rotundity entirely ignored in all extensive surveys 57

Doctrine of earth's rotundity interferes with Scripture teachings 358

Downward extent of the "great deep" 190

Dublin Bay, experiment made across 33

Earth a crust, inclosing a mass of fire 186

Earth a floating island 179

Earth a plane, consistent with the plans of the great surveyors and engineers of the day 57

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Earth a plane, proved by experiments 9, 243-46

Earth a plane, proved by the hull of a receding ship disappearing before the masthead 212

Earth an immense non-moving circular plane 88

Earth-light 338

Earth no axial or orbital motion 62

Earth's centrifugal force 312

Earth's rotation, an oft-repeated plausible statement in favour of, refuted 78

Earth's rotundity, examination of the so-called "Proofs" of the 201

Earth's supposed orbital motion logically void and non-available 79

Earth's surface, description of the 89

Earth's true form and magnitude 88

Earth's true position in the universe 177

Ebb and flood tides not regularly exact 165

Eclipse (Lunar) of February 27th, 1858, and February 6th, 1860 133

Eclipse (Lunar) a proof of rotundity 300 Eclipse (Lunar), rules to find out all particulars of 154

Eclipse (Lunar), to find the time, duration, and magnitude of 155

Eclipses (Solar and Lunar), cause of 130

Eclipses predicted 152

Eddystone light visible for 14 miles 218

"Edinburgh Review" on the measurement of fixed stars 84

England to Adelaide, distance from 96

Enlargement of the sun's path 326

Equal radiation of light and heat 111

Equinoxes, precession of the 324

Eratosthenes' table of measurement of a degree of latitude 246

Eruptions of various volcanoes 187-188

Erroneous application of perspective 205

Evidence of the Plutonic action and origin of the earth 177

Evidence that the moon is not a reflector of the sun's light 139

Examples of lights being visible at sea which would be impossible upon a globular surface 28-30

Examination of the so-called "Proofs" of the earth's rotundity 201

Examples of the "Zetetic" process 4-5

Expansion and contraction of the sun's path 108

Experiment from the summit of Shooter's Hill to Hampstead Hill showing the difference between the theory of rotundity and the results of actual survey 57

Experiment showing the apparent concavity of the earth 36-38

Experiment suggested by Copernicus for obtaining proof of orbital motion 81

Experiment to illustrate the phenomenon of the rising and setting of the sun 126

Experiment to show manner of the sea's suspension over a region of elemental fire 192

Experiment to test the supposed attraction of the moon upon the waters of the earth 160

Experiment with a grinding-stone, showing that if the earth revolves the atmosphere would revolve in the same direction 73-75

Experiment with metallic tubes showing that the earth has not the slightest degree of orbital motion 79

Experiment with pendulum, by General Sabine 240

Experimental fix 16

Experiments demonstrating the true form of standing water 9-62

Experiments showing that different theodolites give different degrees of horizontal depression below the cross-hair 41-48

Experiments showing that refraction does not account for the elevation of objects seen at a distance of several miles 31-36

Experiments showing that the earth has no motion of rotation 62-87

Experiments with pendulum by M. Foucault 302

Experiments with pendulum in the open air 238

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Extraordinary phenomenon attending the eclipse of February 27th, 1858 133

Extraordinary voyage 95

Extremities of the earth bounded by ice and water 177

Faces of the dead 384

Facts and their proofs concerning the real cause of tides 161

Falling bodies, deflection of 313

Figure and dimensions of the earth, General Von Schubert on the 250

Figure of the earth, Von Gumpach on the 241, 243, 250

Fire in the internal parts of the earth 182, 189

Fixed stars, errors in measuring the distance of 84

Formation of the earth, comparatively recent 177

General summary and application 347

General Von Schubert on the dimensions and figure of the earth 250

God's two voices 383

Goose roasting by revolving fire 319

Great circle sailing 279

Great Ship Canal at Suez furnishes an instance of entire discrepancy between the theory of the earth's rotundity and the results of practical engineering 53

Great surveys made on the principle of a horizontal datum line 56

Gunnery experiments showing that motion in the earth does not exist 66-72

Heaven and Hell 386-389

Height of tides in various parts of Great Britain and Ireland 168

Heliostat, Lieut-Colonel Portlock and the 59

Herschel, Sir J. W. F., Bart., on invisible moons in the firmament 149

Herschel, Sir J. W. F., Bart., on the parallax of certain stars 83

Horizontal eclipses 131

Hot springs 183

Hounslow Heath, measurement of 248

How the earth is circumnavigated 223

How the sun appears to ascend from the morning horizon to the noon-day position, and thence to descend to the evening horizon 125

How to ascertain the earth's circumference 89-98

How to measure altitude 100

How to prove that a Lunar eclipse by a shadow of the earth is an utter impossibility 132

How to reach New York in a few hours 78

Humboldt on different coloured stars 194

Hydrographic records of high and low tides in different countries 166-168

Icy boundary wall at the earth's circumference 89

Illustration of the law of natural perspective 205-212

Incompressible nature of water 162

Injurious consequences of sleeping in full moonlight 141

Inquiry into the probable duration of the earth 196

Instances that the lowest parts of receding bodies disappear before the highest 214-215

Internal convulsions, the cause of earth's irregular formations 180

Internal parts of the earth still on fire 182

Invisible moons 149

Invisible stars 150

Irregularity of the time of ebb and flood tides 165

Isle of Wight as seen through a theodolite 26

Jugglers' performances prove that motion in the earth does not exist 65

Kepler rejects the Copernican theory 82

Kossuth's, M. Francis, report of the survey of Mont Cenis Tunnel 263

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La Place on "Primitive Impulse" 350

Law of natural perspective, illustrations of the 205-212

Length of degrees in various parallels 244

Letter by Lord Palmerston on gunnery in connection with the earth's rotation 70

Letter from a correspondent in New Zealand relative to the sudden darkness in that region 119

Letter from Mr. Elliott, an American aëronaut, as to the appearance of the earth from the car of a balloon 37

Levelling, quotation from the Encyclopædia Britannica 34

Lieutenant Maury's table of distances across the Atlantic by the various routes (circle sailing) 92

Light and darkness at the northern centre 111

Light of the moon devoid of heat 144

Light, transmission of 223

Lighthouses, altitudes of, at Poolbeg and Holyhead Pier 28

Lighthouses, altitudes of, at Egerö, Dunkerque, Cordonan, Madras, New Zealand and Newfoundland 30

Literal teachings of Old and New Testament concerning the world's destruction plain and unmistakeable 393

"Literary Gazette" on M. Foucault's experiments with the pendulum 302

"Liverpool Mercury" on the supposed manifestation of the rotation of the earth 304

"London Journal," extract from the, showing that the surface of the earth as seen from a balloon, appeared concave instead of convex 37

Longitude between Adelaide and Sydney, difference of 96

Longitude, degrees of 253

Longitudes at different latitudes, table of 256

Long "sights" 59

Long twilight in northern latitudes 119

Loss of time on sailing westward 228

Lunar eclipse a proof of rotundity 300

Lunar eclipses 130

Magnitude of the earth 88

Magnitude of the sun, moon, and stars comparatively smaller than that of the earth 104

Mayhew's "Great World of London," extract from, showing that the earth appeared concave when seen from the car of a balloon 37

Mean annual temperature of the whole earth at the level of the sea 237

Measurement of a degree of latitude by Eratosthenes, 230 B.C. 246

Measurement of a degree of latitude by modern nations 246

Measurement of the meridional arc by modern nations 247

Measurements of Hounslow Heath and Salisbury Plain 248

Measuring the distance of fixed stars 84

Measuring the altitude of the Nelson Monument at Great Yarmouth 100

Mont Fréjus, details of the survey of the tunnel under 48

Moonlight devoid of heat 144

Moonlight injurious to the eyesight of those who sleep in its beams 141

Moon, mass of the, according to Lindenau 158

Moon self-luminous 139, 146, 147

Moon, shadows on the 341

Moon transparent 337

Moon's appearance 334

Moon's phases 333

Motion in the earth does not exist 66

Motion of stars north and south 284

Motion of the atmosphere 74

Motion of the surface of the sea 162

Motion of the sun a visible reality 105

Natural law of perspective 206

Neptune, the planet 328

New and easy way of travelling, as suggested by Bishop Wilkins 77

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Newtonian theory a prolific source of atheism and irreligion 355

Newtonian theory false in its foundation; irregular, unfair, and illogical in its details 354

New Zealand, the length of the day in 120

Noad, Dr., on the vibrations of pendulums 237

Non-luminous stars 150

Norway, description of the sun at midnight in 107

Observations of Arctic navigators on the sun's motion 106

Observations with the Dip Sector, by Sir J. W. F. Herschel, Bart. 232

Observations with the telescope on the "Nab" light-ship from Victoria Pier, Portsmouth 217

Occultation of Jupiter by the moon 339

Occultation of the Pleiades by the moon 340

Ocean tides less or greater, according to pressure of atmosphere 164

Ocean waves, on the dimensions of 222

Old Bedford Bridge, account of the experiment on March 5th, 1870 268

Only one material world mentioned in Scripture 374

Orbital motion, experiments showing that the earth is without 62-87

Palmerston (Lord) on gunnery in connection with the earth's rotation 70

"Parallax" and his Teachings 402

Parallax assigned to α Centauri 83

Peculiarity of the climate of New Zealand 121

Peculiar path of the sun, as demonstrated by actual observation 110

Pendulum experiment by M. Foucault, of Paris 302

Pendulum experiments by General Sabine 240

Pendulum vibrations, variability of 235

Perspective, a simple and visible law of, operating to cause sunrise and sunset 124

Perspective, erroneous application of 205

Perspective on the sea 213

Perspective, the law of 203

Phenomena of sunrise and sunset illustrated by placing a light in a tunnel 126

Philosophical teachings of Scripture consistent with those of Zetetic Astronomy. See "Scripture Proofs" in List of Works, &c.

Pilot Balloons 75

Pitch darkness in the Southern whaling grounds 123

Planet Neptune, the 328

Planets, stations and retrogradations of 322

Plausible statement in favour of the earth's rotation, refuted 78

Plurality of worlds an impossibility 358, 361, 382

Polar exploration 177

Pole Star, declination of the 230

Position of the earth in relation to the rest of the universe 189

Position of the earth in the universe 177

Precession of the equinoxes 324

Predicted eclipses 152

Present chemical condition of the earth 177

"Primitive impulse" 350

Probable duration of the earth 196

Professor Airey on Newton's assumption that the earth is fluid, and in shape a spheroid 239

Professor Bessel and the parallax of a star in the constellation of Cygnus 83.

Professor De Morgan on the rotundity of the earth 7

Professor Hunt on God's two voices 383

Professor Oerstead on the deviation of falling bodies from the perpendicular 315

Professor Silliman on the temperature of Artesian wells in Paris 184

Professor Tyndall's experience of lying with his face towards the moon 142

Proof of the constant pressure of the atmosphere on the earth 161

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Proof of the fluctuating motion of all floating masses 163-164

Proofs of the irregularity of the times of ebb and flood tides 166

Proof of the peculiar motion of the star "Polaris" 172

Proof that atmospheric air is very elastic 163

Proof that floating masses have a tremulous motion 169

Proof that large lakes are without tide 172

Proof that the earth has a tremulous motion at all times 169

Proof that the tide generally turns a little earlier below than it does above 171

Proof that tides in the extreme South are very small 170

Proof that the velocity of a flood tide increases as it approaches land 164

Proof that the velocity of an ebb tide decreases as it leaves shore 165

Proof that water is incompressible 162

"Punch" on the earth's rotary motion 309

Question of "Parallax," Dr. Lardner, Sir J. W. F. Herschel, Bart., and the "Edinburgh Review," on the 84-85

Radiation of light and heat 111

Railways and earth's centrifugal force 312

Range of the eye 202

Refraction can only exist where the line of sight passes from one medium into another of different density 34

Refraction caused by the earth's atmosphere an inadequate solution to the phenomena of horizontal eclipses 131

Results of experiments made upon sea-going steamers always incompatible with the theory that the earth is a globe 46

Rhumb-line sailing 282

Rise and fall of tide in the South Seas 170

Rising and setting of the sun 129

Rotundity of the earth, examination of the so-called "proofs" of the 201

Rotundity of the earth, Lord Palmerston on gunnery in connection with the 70

Rotundity of the earth, Professor De Morgan on the 7

Rotundity, the doctrine of, entirely ignored in all extensive surveys 57

Sailor's story, a 122

Salisbury Plain, measurement of 248

Scripture teachings respecting the material world literally true (see Scripture proofs in List of Works, &c.) 360-401

Sections of railways give proof that the earth is in reality a plane 47

Shadows on the moon 341

Ship's hull disappearing before the masthead explained 201-221

Shipwreck on the western shores of Scotland 385

Shipwrecks from a false idea of the form and measurement of the earth's surface 259

Simplest method of ascertaining any future eclipse 153

Sir Charles Lyell's remarks on hot springs 183

Sir James Clarke Ross's description of the central regions 178

Sir James Clarke Ross on sailing westward 228

Sir J. F. W. Herschel, Bart., on the parallax of a star in the constellation Cygnus 83

Sir J. F. W. Herschel's observations with the Dip Sector 232

Solar and sidereal times, difference in 321

Solar and lunar eclipses, cause of 130

South Seas, rise and fall of tide in the 170

Southern Cross 287

Sphericity inevitable from semi-fluidity 251

Spherical excess 261

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Standing order of the Houses of Lords and Commons on railway operations 56

Standing water, experiments demonstrating the true form of 9

Star "Polaris," how to observe its peculiar motion 172

Stars, non-luminous 150

Stars of varied colours near the Southern Cross 194

Stars, north and south, motion of 284

Stations and distances 276

Stations and retrogradation of planets 322

Strzelechi, Count, on the motion of the higher strata of clouds 76

Subaqueous world of fire below the "foundations of the earth" 192

Sudden disappearance of a vessel on the "Old Bedford" Canal 15

Suez Canal, furnishes an instance of entire discrepancy between the earth's rotundity and the result of practical engineering 53

Summer and winter, cause of 111

Sun appearing larger when rising and setting than at noon day, cause of 128

Sun seen at midnight in Norway, the 107

Sun, simple process of ascertaining the true distance of the 99

Sun, moon, stars, and comets, of comparatively smaller magnitude than the earth 104

Sun and moon two great lights 373

Sun's motion, a visible reality 105

Sun's motion concentric with the polar centre, the 105

Sun's path, expansion and contraction of the 108

Sun's progressive and concentric motion over the earth practically demonstrable 367

Sun's motion recognised in religious and mythological poems of all ages 369

Sun's path, enlargement of the 326

Sunlight and moonlight compared 140

Sunrise and sunset, cause of 124

Supposed manifestation of the rotation of the earth 304

Surface of the earth a plane, logically deduced 45-46

Survey of the tunnel under Mont Fréjus, confirmatory of the earth being a plane 48

Survey of the bed of the Atlantic Ocean, an illustration that the surface of the great waters of the earth is horizontal 54

Table of curvature in statute miles 10

Table of height of tides in various parts of Great Britain and Ireland 168

Table of longitudes at different latitudes 256

Table of measurement of a degree of latitude by Eratosthenes 246

Table of measurement of a degree of latitude by modern nations 246, 247

Table of the length of degrees in various parallels 244

Table of the mean annual temperature of the earth at different latitudes 238

Tangential horizon 265

Temperature at the bottom of the deepest coal mine in England 183

Terrestrial motions and the theory of Copernicus 81

Theodolite, experiments with the 17-58

Theodolite tangent 264

Theory defined 1

Theory of the earth's rotundity contradictory 158

Thermometer lower in moonlight than in the shade 143

Tides in the South Seas 170

Tides, the cause of 158

Total lunar eclipses 134-136

Transmission of light 323

True distance of the sun 99

True form and magnitude of the earth 88

True form of standing water, experiments demonstrating the 9-62

True position of the earth in the universe 177

Tunnel experiment to illustrate the phenomenon of the rising and setting of the sun 126

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Tunnel under Mont Fréjus 48

Twilight 119

United States Minister's description of the sun at midnight in Norway 107

"Universal solvent," the 361

"Up" and "down," and "above" and "below" 388

Uranus, discovery of 329

Valencia, in Ireland, distance of from the polar centre 96

Valencia, in Ireland, direct distance from, to Cape Town 96

"Vanishing point," the 124, 206

Variability of pendulum vibrations 235

Vasco de Gama's voyage to the South 177

Verrier's, M., great astronomical blunder 330-332

Volcanic action constantly increasing and extending 197, 198

Volcanoes the safety-valves of the earth 185, 186, 187

Von Gumpach on the figure of the earth 241-243, 250

Von Schubert on the figure and dimensions of the earth 250

Voyage extraordinary 95

Ward, the Hon. Mrs., on lunar eclipses 134, 136

"Warrior," H.M.S., regularity of fluctuation in Plymouth Bay 164

Water incompressible 162

Waves, on the dimensions of 222

Welney Bridge and Welche's Dam, experiments between 11

Wesley, Rev. John, on all systems of astronomy 371

What supports the waters? 190

Why a ship's hull disappears before the masthead 201-221

Why Kepler and others reject the Copernican theory 83

Why the earth is not at all times illuminated all over its surface 123

Winter and summer, cause of 111

Works, Newspapers, Periodicals, &c., referred to or quoted from 412

Zetetic and theoretic defined and compared 1

Zetetic, derivation of the term 1

Zetetic evidence that the moon is self-luminous 139

Zetetic inquiry into the downward extent of the "great deep" 190

Zetetic process, examples of 4-5