In addition take note from the Sailing instructions below that the higher the elevation of the lighthouse, the further the distance from which it can be seen. The only reason to go to the trouble and expense of building a tower for the light is because the higher the light the further it will be visible over the horizon of a spherical Earth. If the Earth were flat, the elevation of the light would make absolutely no difference to the visibility of the light from a distant ship. Dubay as usual just repeats any old nonsense without question.Īs an aside, you might also like to consider that the very existence of lighthouses strongly suggests that the Earth is a sphere. The may be deliberate lies or maybe Rowbotham and Winship were just willing to give credit to any tall story as long as it supported their belief in a flat Earth, but I think that there are too many similar examples for these to have been innocent mistakes. The only possible conclusion is that all these flat Earth proving accounts are bogus. Whist this quote refers to modern sailing directions I believe we can assume that they were also the most trusted source of coastal information at a time when Great Britain's sea power was unrivalled in the world. Zieglauer Von Blumenthal, Studies of Nuclear Fuel by Means of Nuclear Spectroscopic Methods (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala. Sonder-Abdruck aus den âoeBukowiner Nachrichten.â.Ferdinand. Lets look at Zetetic Astronomy in its slightly revised form as used by The Flat Earth Societys former president, Charles K. First And OnlyDan Abnett5, Studyguide for 21st Century Astronomy by Hester, JeffCram101 Textbook Reviews, Geschichtliche Bilder aus der Bukowina zur Zeit der oÌsterreichischen MilitaÌr-Verwaltung. This publication made him a household name in Victorian England. However, the most widely used Sailing Directions product is the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office's, 'Admiralty Sailing directions'" The flat Earth model is an archaic conception of Earths shape as a plane or disk. Rowbotham 'preached' Zetetic Astronomy throughout England, and published a 430 page second edition of his 'Earth Not a Globe' in 1873. "Many nations publish Sailing Directions for their home waters, where they are the International Hydrographic Organization's (IHO) primary charting authority. The following is a quote from the Wikipedia entry on "Sailing Directions" The accuracy of these publications cannot be doubted.
If I were to research other Sailing Directions on archive I have no doubt that all of the accounts worldwide would also be consistent with a spherical Earth. There is even an account of the Poolbeg Light being visible from 12 miles out to sea rather than the 30 miles claimed in proof 93 . In the two Sailing Direction documents that I have access to online there is NOT A SINGLE ACCOUNT of a lighthouse or light that is visible from further than it should be on a spherical Earth. These "Sailing Directions" were official documents published by the Admiralty of Great Britain, the greatest sea power in the world at that time, and used by ship's captains globally. However there are contemporary accounts of lighthouse visibility that are not hearsay. These accounts are completely unverifiable. General Summary-Application-Cui Bono"Parallax" And His Teachings.Dubay copied many accounts of how lighthouses are visible from much further than they should be on a spherical Earth from Samuel Rowbotham's Zetetic Astronomy and Thomas Winship's Zetetic Cosmogeny. Examination of the So-Called "Proofs" Of the Earth's Rotundity.-Why a Ship's Hull Disappears Before the Mast-HeadXV.
If you ever have to debate the flat earth pro or con, this book is a complete agenda of each point that you'll have to argue. The Earth's True Position in the Universe Comparatively Recent Formation Present Chemical Condition And Approaching Destruction by FireXIV. Zetetic Astronomy is a key work of flat-earth thought, just as Donnelly's Atlantis, the Antediluvian World is still considered required reading on the subject of Atlantis. Cause of Sun Appearing Larger When Rising and Setting Than at NoondayXI. Cause of Day and Night, Winter and Summer And the Long altErnations of Light and Darkness at The Northern CentreIX. The Sun's Path Expands and Contracts Daily for Six Months AlternatelyVIII. The Sun's Motion, Concentric With the Polar CentreVII. His work was originally published as a 16-page pamphlet (1849), and later expanded into a book (1865). Earth not a globe an experimental inquiry into the true figure of the earth, by 'Parallax'. The True Form and Magnitude of the EarthV. Samuel Birley Rowbotham (/ r o b t m / 1816 23 December 1884, in London) was an English inventor, writer and socialist who wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe under the pseudonym Parallax. Experiments Demonstrating the True Form of Standing Water, and Proving the Earth to Be a PlaneIII. Zetetic and Theoretic Defined and ComparedII. This classic includes the following chapters: I.