A Challenge to the JOHNS HOPKINS University

ONE HUNDRED PROOFS THAT THE EARTH IS NOT A GLOBE.

Dedicated to RICHARD A. PROCTOR, Esq.
“The Greatest Astronomer of the Age.”
By WM. CARPENTER,
Referee for John Hampden, Esq., in the Celebrated Scientific Wager, in 1870; Author of ‘Common Sense’ on Astronomy, (London, 1866;) Proctor’s Planet Earth; Wallace’s Wonderful Water; The Delusion of the Day, &c., &c.

“UPRIGHT, DOWNRIGHT, STRAIGHTFORWARD.”
BALTIMORE:
Printed and Published by the Author,
No. 71 Chew Street
1885.
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. Five Copies, Postage Paid, for One Dollar.
5th Edition: 6th Thousand.

INDEX.

1[The aeronaut seesfor himself.]
2[Standing waterlevel.]
3[Surveyors’“allowance.”]
4[Flow ofRivers—the Nile.]
5[Lighthouses—Cape Hatteras.]
6[Thesea-shore.—“Coming up.”]
7[A trip downChesapeake Bay.]
8[The model globeuseless.]
9[Thesailor’s level charts.]
10[Themariners’ compass.]
11[The southerncircumference.]
12[Circumnavigationof the Earth.]
13[Meridians arestraight lines.]
14[Parallels oflatitude—circles.]
15[Sailing down andunderneath.]
16[Distance roundthe South.]
17[Levelnessrequired by man.]
18[The“level” of the astronomers.]
19[Half the globeis cut off, now!]
20[No“up” or “down” in nature?]
21[The“spherical lodestone.”]
22[No falsehoodswanted!]
23[No proof of“rotundity.”]
24[A “mostcomplete” failure.]
25[The firstAtlantic Cable.]
26[Earth’s“curvature.”]
27[Which end goesdown?]
28[A “hill ofwater.”]
29[Characteristicsof a globe.]
30[Horizon—level with the eye.]
31[Much too small aglobe.]
32[Vanishing pointof objects.]
33[We are not“fastened on.”]
34[Our“antipodes.”—a delusion.]
35[Horizon a levelline.]
36[Chesapeake Bayby night.]
37[Six months dayand night.]
38[The“Midnight Sun.”]
39[Sun moves roundthe Earth.]
40[SuezCanal—100 miles—level.]
41[The “truelevel.”—a curve.]
42[Projectiles—firing east or west.]
43[Bodies thrownupwards.]
44[Firing inopposite direction.]
45[Astronomer Royalof England.]
46[An utterlymeaningless theory.]
47[ProfessorProctor’s cylinder.]
48[Proctor’sfalse perspective.]
49[Motion of theclouds.]
50[Scripturalproof—a plane.]
51[The“Standing Order.”]
52[More ice in thesouth.]
53[Sun’saccelerated pace, south.]
54[Balloons notleft behind.]
55[The Moon’sbeams are cold.]
56[The Sun andMoon.]
57[NotEarth’s shadow at all.]
58[Rotating andrevolving.]
59[Proctor’sbig mistake.]
60[Sun’sdistance from Earth.]
61[No true“measuring-rod.”]
62[Sailing“round” a thing.]
63[Telescopes—“hill of water.”]
64[The laws ofoptics—Glaisher.]
65[“Dwelling” upon error.]
66[Ptolemy’spredictions.]
67[Canal inChina—700 miles.]
68[Mr.Lockyer’s false logic.]
69[Beggarlyalternatives.]
70[Mr.Lockyer’s suppositions.]
71[North Star seenfrom S. lat.]
72[“Walls notparallel!”]
73[Pendulumexperiments.]
74[“Delightful uncertainty.”]
75[Outrageouscalculations.]
76[J. R.Young’s Navigation.]
77[“Tumblingover.”]
78[Circumnavigation—south.]
79[A disc—nota sphere.]
80[Earth’s“motion” unproven.]
81[Moon’smotion east to west.]
82[All on the wrongtrack.]
83[No meridianal“degrees.”]
84[Depression ofNorth Star.]
85[Rivers flowingup-hill?]
86[100 miles infive seconds.]
87[Miserablemakeshifts.]
88[What holds thepeople on.]
89[Luminousobjects.]
90[Practice againsttheory.]
91[Unscientificclassification.]
92[G. B.Airy’s “suppositions.”]
93[Astronomers giveup theory.]
94[School-room“proofs” false.]
95[Pictorialproof—Earth a plane.]
96[Laws ofperspective ignored.]
97[“Rationalsuppositions.”]
98[It is the starthat moves.]
99[Hair-splittingcalculation.]
100[How“time” is lost or gained.]