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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,"

BY "PARALLAX"

pseudonym of Samuel Birley Rowbotham [1816-1885]."

Author of "Patriarchal Longevity," and other works; and Founder of the Modern Zetetic Philosophy.

THE ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE DAVEY, F.Z.S.

Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged.

LONDON:

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.

[1881]

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