Category: Science - Physics
The term “zetetic” is derived from the Greek verb _zeteo_; which means to search or examine--to proceed only by inquiry. None can doubt that by making special experiments and collecting manifest and undeniable facts, arranging them in logical order, and observing what is natur...
The term “zetetic” is derived from the Greek verb _zeteo_; which means to search or examine--to proceed only by inquiry. None can doubt that by making special experiments and co...
2. Part 2N represents the northern centre; and S S S the southern circumference--both icy or frozen regions. That the south is an immense ring, or glacial boundary, is evident from the f...
3. Part 3This would be utterly impossible if the Earth were a globe, as shown in the diagram, Figure 20. Let N represent the north pole, E E the equator, C C the tropic of Capricorn, and...
4. Part 4The following observation as made by surveyors, also bears upon the subject:--If a spirit-level or theodolite be “levelled,” and a given point be read upon a graduated staff at...
5. Part 5A letter from a correspondent in New Zealand, dated Nelson, September 15, 1857, contains the subjoined passages:--“Even in summer people here have no notion of going without fir...
6. Part 6If, as we have now seen, the very nature of a reflector demands certain conditions and the Moon does not manifest these conditions, it must of necessity be concluded that the Mo...
7. Part 7As the earth is an extended plane resting in and upon the waters of the “great deep” it may fitly be compared to a large vessel or ship floating at anchor, with her “Hold” or lo...
8. Part 8The following is from the _Scotsman_, which has always been distinguished for the accuracy of its scientific papers. The article bears the initials “C. M.,” which will at once b...
9. Part 9Carriages similarly receding will seem to lose that portion of the rim of the wheels which touches the Earth; the axles will seem to get lower; and at the distance of a few mile...
10. Part 10The only modification which can be made or allowed in the preceding calculations is that for refraction, which is considered by surveyors generally to amount to about ¹⁄₁₂th of...
11. Part 11It is a very popular idea among modern astronomers that the stellar universe is an endless congeries of systems, of Suns and attendant worlds peopled with sentient beings analog...
12. Part 12If it be true that the Stars and the Planets are not simply lights, as the scriptures affirm them to be, but magnificent worlds, for the most part much larger than this earth, t...