The last I heard of it was in lectures at Plymouth, in October, 1864. The Zetetic system still lives in lectures and books as it ought to do, for there is no way of teaching a truth comparable to opposition. times the diameter is of a higher kind, being absolute mathematical demonstration. The evidence for the earth's figure is tremendously powerful of its kind but the proof that the circumference is 3.14159265. The evidence that the earth is round is but cumulative and circumstantial: scores of phenomena ask, separately and independently, what other explanation can be imagined except the sphericity of the earth. The persons present and waiting for the second lecture assuaged their disappointment by concluding that the lecturer had slipped off the icy edge of his flat disk, and that he would not be seen again till he peeped up on the opposite side.īut, strange as it may appear, the opposer of the earth's roundness has more of a case-or less of a want of case-than the arithmetical squarer of the circle. 12 and 16, 1849) unite in stating that the lecturer ran away from his second lecture at Burnley, having been rather too hard pressed at the end of his first lecture to explain why the large hull of a ship disappeared before the sails. The Blackburn Standard and Preston Guardian (Dec. I have no doubt they did much good: for very few persons have any distinct idea of the evidence for the rotundity of the earth. The fact is worth noting that from 1849 to 1857, arguments on the roundness or flatness of the earth did itinerate. 8, 1848, the Secretary of the Astronomical Society (De Morgan by name) said, at the close of the proceedings,-"Now, gentlemen, if you will promise not to tell the Council, I will read something for your amusement": and he then read a few of the arguments which had been transmitted by the lecturer. Goulden's way of representing the following occurrence: Dec. 8, 1848." No account of such a paper appears in the Notice for that month: I suspect that the above is Mr. In this last advertisement is the following announcement: "A paper on the above subjects was read before the Council and Members of the Royal Astronomical Society, Somerset House, Strand, London (Sir John F. W.
Some of the journals rather incline to the view: but the Leicester Advertiser thinks that the statements "would seem very seriously to invalidate some of the most important conclusions of modern astronomy," while the Norfolk Herald is clear that "there must be a great error on one side or the other." This broadsheet is printed at Aylesbury in 1857, and the lecturer calls himself Parallax: but at Trowbridge, in 1849, he was S. The lecturer gained great praise from provincial newspapers for his ingenuity in proving that the earth is a flat, surrounded by ice. Though only a traveling lecturer's advertisement, there are so many arguments and quotations that it is a little pamphlet. 784927 A Budget of Paradoxes - 1857-1859 Augustus De Morgan ZETETIC ASTRONOMY.
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