Early Parallaxian Theory In a Nutshell :: The Flat Earth Society
In this article we take a look into the theories of Samuel Rowbotham and his followers and successors. Wildly influential, we still see much of his work alive today in modern theory. Every flatist should have a working knowledge of his work as it’s reach is broad.
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The infamous Azimuthal Equidistant Projection. Even if we don’t know it, you likely know it instead as the U.N. Flag, adopted in 1946. Its history stretches all the way back to the 19th century Flatist. Nearly every single person I’ve talked to will agree that it is not accurate enough - especially in the South, but it has been been a staunch mainstay in flat earth theory. Samuel Shenton and Charles K. Johnson ascribed to it, often mapping the route of NASA ‘sputniks’ to the surface of this infamous piece of cartography. It finds its place today as the most popular geographic view of the Flat Earth. And it started with Parallax, in his seminal work Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not A Globe. It doesn’t hold up to modern scrutiny. Have no doubt there. The smallest of issues, and still a large one at that, concerned travel in the South. As you receded rimward past the equator, distances appeared distorted failing to explain Southern travel times. To this complaint Rowbotham simply replied “It is one of those utterances which indicate a desperate determination to support a cause at all hazards, and without regard to any evidence but such as agrees with a foregone conclusion.” He went on to point out that many can easily find instances where calculation has failed to agree with actual trips and that these locations are even found by calculation in the first place citing a few strong first hand accounts.While we now recognize this as a legitimate issue, on the other hand, the map was a good first step in the right direction. Solving a host of issues, problems like circumnavigation and Northern travel, these were simply explained through the layout of the continents on Earth. The HeavensThe geography could also be derived using one of the now most oft cited proofs of the sphere, which he spent some effort doing in his work. By placing sticks in various locations and noting the angle of the shadow, Rowbotham used this to calculate the distance to the sun and its location. A similar experiment was carried out at least twice in the past, once by early Taoist Chinese scientists and once by Eratosthenes. In contrast to Eratosthenes of Alexandria’s assumptions, he did not take it out of faith that the rays of light from the sun would be parallel, the sun be far away and massive, and that the Earth was a Globe. Instead, he took the data gathered and tried to draw conclusion from that. After all, to determine the source of a light, why wouldn’t you measure the angle of its shadow - as you did with any other source of light in all of human existence!Apparently, unbeknownst to him, the conclusions mirrored studies the Taoist scientists did much earlier than both Eratosthenes and the Parallaxian view. Independently discovering these and incorporating them into the modern view of the world, we ended up with most common path of the sun on the flat earth. Circling above, the sun followed a path roughly around the equator. Not only did this explain time-zones - as the area the Earth shone on was limited any time of day - but it also revealed to us the Universe was rather small. The stars but ‘motes’ close to the surface of the earth. The Sun then could be calculated in diameter to be 32 miles wide. Rowbotham, like many modern flatists, held gravity to be a farce. This view was held both by Samuel Shenton and Charles K Johnson. Things simply fell down.PerspectiveAnother key feature of classic Parallaxian models is their unique interpretation of perspective. He uses two primary thought experiments to discuss perspective; we will start with one dealing with a rounded circle of wood with an inset hole. This piece of wood is fastened to a pole or some similar mechanism to hold it in place. The interested experimenter then slowly walks away from the pole. As the viewer recedes away from the disk, the inset hole apparently shrinks and shrinks due to its distance until eventually the disk itself appears as a whole disk - with no hole. This might seem a bit irrelevant until you tie it in with his second experiment.Showcasing the difference between our common misunderstanding of vanishing points, Rowbotham added the height of the viewer into inspection. We will turn our attention this time to a line of street lamps. Most people understand perspective to work much like you may have learned in a high school art class - the edges of various objects gradually approach a common vanishing point. Rowbotham refined this view and instead realized that one must also take into account the height of the viewer herself. He supplies diagrams to show us the result of this shift.This helped to explain a great number of phenomena including the sinking ship phenomena. Just like the hole in the disk, the base appears to disappear. This was not the only explanation from Parallaxian thought concerning this though. One of particular interest is the relative wave size hypothesis. In this it is realized that the size of close-by waves are far larger visually than those waves close to a ship in the distance. Thus we see that even on a fairly calm day that the closer waves would begin to obstruct the base of the ship making it appear to sink! As was often said, of course it disappears hull first! We are attempting to look through 50 miles of waves!The MoonAs with modern flatists, the average Parallaxian Zeteticist knew the moon to be self luminous. Likely this came about in both cases not only due to the inability of sun the light the moon as it does on a globe if the Earth was flat, but also because it was coherent with Christian scripture. Additionally, it was semitransparent, globular body with mountains and craters of some type. Its make up was thought to be a cold, semi-transparent crystalline mass - somewhat like a giant ball of ice. Its light was a a soft phosphorescent one. Much of this won’t cause the modern flatist to bat an eye. Of particular interest though is that this light was dangerous and could cause madness and diseases of various kinds. To support this claim he drew on evidences stretching back to ancient knowledge that hanging fish in the sun would cause it to spoil, the increase in lunacy during the full moon, laws prohibiting sailors from sleeping in the moon and much more. He described the light of the moon as damp, cold, and sceptic - substances exposed to it soon show symptoms of decay. Most modern believers would reject this, though it is of interest that the mainstream studies concerning this are far from conclusive. The point here seems to show that the nature of light from the moon is in fact different from that of the sun - of which there can be no doubt. This is common sense, and as he notes is evident across many cultures. The Hindu as he points out call the sun the “Creator of Heat” and the moon “The Cold". Or Nidaghakara and Sitala Hima respectively.On a more serious note, when we talk of the moon we naturally must then progress to questioning many of the phenomena related to the moon. The most obvious phenomena that comes to mind is the lunar eclipse. Again here in Zetetic thought we see the rebirth of a very old idea. First noted in the today’s studies by Eric Dubay, Vedic astronomy holds that these may be caused by Rahu, in his view a shadow moon. The parallaxians had a similar view maintaining eclipses were caused by the regular passing of a shadow object. Also semi-transparent, this moon would regularly pass between us and the proper moon luna.Now this may seem like a quick patch to explain eclipses, but they put forth some rather notable citations towards this. Among his citations supporting, he cites a Mr. Walker who observed an eclipse on March 19th 1848 stating “The moon positively gave good light from its disc during the total eclipse,” and “The whole disc of the moon being as perfect with light as if there had been no eclipse whatever!” Additionally citations can be found from Philosophical Magazine and Normal Pogson, Director of the Hartwell Observatory. Last Post The Flat Earth Society Welcomes B.o.B Next Post Flat Earth Clues: Exclusive Interview with Mark Sargent Topics No topics. Other Topics History Religion Popular Culture News Announcements Theory Interviews Related Posts Early Parallaxian Theory In a Nutshell The Flat Earth Society Welcomes B.o.B The Mathematics of the Infinite Flat Earth Add Message Full Name Email Address Website Please type the letters and numbers shown in the image. Click the image to see another captcha. Submit Drop files here or click to upload. Full Name Email Address Website Please type the letters and numbers shown in the image. Click the image to see another captcha. Reply Drop files here or click to upload. Remove this message? Replies to it will not be removed. Remove this attachment? 32 Messages No messages in this conversation. Montivert | Posted on Sep 9, 2016 Very interesting. As I noted about the both kinds of the light, this one heat from the sun and this other cold from the moon, I remember that thinking of St Thomas of Acquino about the light: <<The light is not material thing or body (photon, quantas) but a quality>>. What is it about the constant light speed in flatearth system? The experiences of Young and Frenel to explain if the light is as waves or from corpuscular nature? Reply | Kth | Posted on Nov 6, 2016 Quite a few errors in his article. Didn't anyone proof read this nonsensical dribble beforehand? Reply | Nick King | Posted on Jan 12, 2017 Quite a few errors in your comment; 'proofread' is one word, 'drivel' means nonsense ... whereas yet-to-be-educated youngsters tend to 'dribble' ! Reply | Hououin Kyouma | Posted on May 25, 2017 Fits the description well then. 'yet-to-be-educated' Reply | dennis lemke green | Posted on Nov 8, 2017 A few errors with who vaccinated you too much Reply | William Sanders | Posted on Nov 7, 2016 Please, add more. This stuff is hilarious. Reply | Beau Haro | Posted on Jul 2, 2017 No Whats hilarious is your cognitive dissonance,also known as fear. Why read it.You already know all of lifes mysteries it would see. Myself Id rather live in a world where there are questions that cant be answered than one where answers cant be questioned. You sir,probably find the latter terrifying Reply | James Albertsons | Posted on Nov 8, 2017 But we've seen from space that the earth is round. The fact that you're agreeing with this nonsensical website about totally absurd beliefs shows that either you're an complete imbecile or you're just going along with this as some kind of joke. It's clear that idiots like you have a huge base of believers, but you ignore common facts and knowledge and hold on to a belief that has dated back since before medieval times. Reply | open | Posted on Nov 24, 2016 "the sun be far away and massive" Do you be black, dude? Cause, damn, dat be sounding stupid alone. Reply | Gigione | Posted on Nov 25, 2016 Do you know, by grace, that spectral composition of light coming from Sun and Moon have been analysed and there is no way to justify what you write here? Do you know that spectral analysis can reveal what's the chemical composition of the source (both emitter and reflective) and there is no way to justify what you write here? Reply | dennis lemke green | Posted on Nov 8, 2017 Who made the study? Nasa? or maybe the US government? so whats the cold? Not having heat? wake up sheeple. So why dont we reach absolute zero when we dont heat things? tipical vaccinated people, beeing too autist to understand logic Reply | ghosthaker02 | Posted on Jan 14, 2017 Firstly, Rahu in Hindu mythology is not a shadow moon but a separate planet all together. It is said that it obscures the moon during an eclipse. So there. Secondly, WHY DONT U ALL JUST STRAP A GO PRO TO A HELIUM BALLOON AND LET UR IMAGINATION FILL IN THE REST!!!! Reply | dennis lemke green | Posted on Nov 8, 2017 I tried it a few times but the goverment is blowing up my baloons with their chemtrails. Search it uphttp://www.pudim.com.br/ Reply | Tomagushi Hiroshi | Posted on Sep 23, 2017 Are you fucking crazy????????? Reply | Karen Smiley | Posted on Mar 21, 2018 Guys, this was written by people who believe the Earth is flat, its gonna suck ass Reply | Sean | Posted on May 25, 2018 we have a winner. 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