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Les diagrammes suivan^. illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 8 8 C C^-^^y^^ /V, o ■/ 1- ^ / =tr 90V rmN] E^u* SOLAR SPHERE. T Three systems of the structure of the universe have been in vogue within the past four thousand years. The Ptolemy, which was that of the Chaldeanns or Magians of Mesopotamia. , ^ The Tyconic was the ancient Egyptian, slightly altered by Tyco Brahe. ,v; ^ < The Copernican now in use was that of Pythagorus of ancient Greece. ., ,,, , , <= v The system here outlined is vastly different from the above-named ; neither Geocentric nor Heleocentric, and may be termed Unicentric. Its proper name is Microcosm (a little world), and consists of a spheroid, named " Solar Sphere," in which the earth revolves. A lunar disc, in a new sense so named, is a slight projec- tion instead of a depression. The sphere has a depres-' sion of three hundred and fifteen miles on one side, making a spheroid. 8 The Great Macrocosm. \ The solar sphere, the earth within surrounded by a luminous atnio.>phere — these three are the sum total of the universe wherein we V e, move and have our being, the three great and only eiiiities. ^ . ^^ i r .. , r The old systems fail to account for the phenomena, for the reason they lack a monthly revolution, which is the most essential feature in the whole economy. This movement affects all the movements of sun, moon and planets. Here is what Copernicus says in laudation of his system : . ;f J: i.l^ • _" . • ll t- J -.- '■ ■. ri'";': " We find what can be discerned in no other scheme — an admirable symmetry of the universe, an Harmoni- ous disposition of the orbits, for who could assign to this beautiful temple a better position than the centre, whence alone it can illuminate all parts at once. Here the sun, as from a kingly throne, sways the orbs that circle around him." Whether sun or earth sways the orbs is debatable., His system lacks the harmony claimed and is decidedly inharmonious in the angular position of the earth cir- cumscribing the almost inconceivable orbit of 190 mil- lion miles diameter annually. The planet Mars, like a pin's head in a circle of 654 feet diameter, Jupiter a medium-s'.zed orange in a circle of a ^-mile, Saturn a small orange in four-fifths cf a mile. The Copernican system has led to great errors in distances and Historical Review. magnitudes. The disciple of Copernicus will be astounded when he learns the facts of the case mathematically computed to a fraction of a second. To fully appreciate the enormity of the exageration, try to conceive of such distances as the sun 92,000,000 miles, superior planets from 450,000,000 to 2,745,000,000 miles. Astronomers, on failing to harmonize the erroneous system with facts, they, at the expense of exaggeration, hannonized the facts to the system. Some astronomers persistently re- fused to bow to the system, but in spite of all in thirty or forty years they all enrolled themselves in the Coper- nican fold, and now for three hundred years these errors have dominated astronomy unchallenged. As for har mony, there is none, till the science of astronomy is lifted out of the mire into which it has been dragged by an erroneous system. 7-1 The late celebrated astronomer, R. A. Procter, justly observes, there is little reason for thinking that astronomy would have been retarded a single day even if Copernicus had never lived. It may be asked^ wherein has there been any progress since the days of Ptolomy, Hippercus and Plotinus ? Are the discoveries commen- surate with the superiority of present-day instruments? They have arrived at a greater degree of accuracy in the observation of periodic times, I admit, but discoveries 10 The Great Macrocosn,. are a nullity with the exception of Gallileo, who discov- ered Jupiter's satelites and Saturn's rings through a lead pipe. 'V'^":, ' - 1 * '*•■ . _/ In the early stages of historic times, mythology was the predominent science, stimulated by astrology and planetary influence, dominating every science, permeat- ing the various economies — social, political, judicial and religious. Soothsayers were the physicians, and fortune telling was a recognized and necessary adjunct of science. Astrology reigned supreme till the first and second cen- turies A. D. Astronomy then made rapid strides in the Alexandrean school. Plotinus, Euclid, Hippercus and Ptolomy became the great exponents of the new science, although astrology predominated up to the time of Tyco Brahe and Keppler, playing havoc among the women for witchcraft and sorcery, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century thousands of innocent women paid the penalty for an impossible crime. At this time some men of great eminence ran counter to their age, and became avowed opponents of astrology. Gallileo gave it the final death blow. The old jugglery is still practiced and has its devotees among the illiterate to the present day. Keppler spoke of astronomy as the wise mother and astrology as the foolish daughter, adding that the existence of the daughter was necessary to the Historical Revieiv. 11 \, life of the mother ; showing that he still had some re- spect for the foolish daughter. He might have said that astronomy was the wise daughter of a fooJish mother with more propriety, and not placed the cart before the horse. Up to this time the science of geology was un- heard of, and when first introduced was looked upon with alarm as an innovation and disturber of settled opinion. The time is coming when geology will take first rank in the sciences. Astronomy and geology are inseparable, interwoven warp and woof, and may be regarded as phraseological synonyms. One cannot be studied without the other. 1 e e e In this new philosophy the earth is the primary, the parent of all phenomena, the masculine. The sun is feminine. When you become acquainted with the system this must be the inevitable conclusion. The solar sphere is the common mother, supplying light, heat and sustenance. The scope of this new philosophy is so immense it affects many of the sciences, more par- ticularly geology and meteorology. One decade under this system will make more progress than a century has done in the past. When we contemplate the new and un trodden fields introduced tlxcreby, well ma}- it be asked, What is the world coming to ? The twentieth century will be an epoch of rennaissance, a cleaUvSing of the -L 1 ■> 12 The Great Macrocosm. Augean stables. The old world will pass away and a new world will be the heritage of posterity. '" ' ' ■ - "( Here are a few explodable theories, viz.: The Nebu- lar Hypothesis, Sceptroscopic Analysis of distant worlds that have no existence as entities, Infinite Space as a Reality (it is that quality of space seen in a mirror, and has no existence), and, probably, A Modification of the Newtonian Gravitation to a law of propulsion in its stead. We will hear it said, At this rate all our cherished theories will be relegated to the limbo of error. Should this be the result, it need not be considered a disgrace to exchange an old and worn out article for a better. Many of my cherished opinions have gone to that limbo, with the result that I am a wiser man. My conceptions of the universe for the last sixteen years have been differ- ent from all others. Of fourteen hundred millions I stood alone. I am now in my eighth decade, and hope to live to see the New Astronomy universally adopted. I am not a Newton in mathematics ; I had not the ad- vantages of a college education, although a fair know- ledge of mathematics, such as the relations of the arc and tangent and quadrature of circles. Many of the problems in this astronomy are involved in the infinitesi- mal calculas to which I am a stranger. Scientific accuracy depends on abler mathematicians than I am. 1 What Led to Discovery of Solar Sphere. 13 WHAT LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF SOL^R - SPHERE. ,, If \i\Xl-i->-:: :-r^ •».-.. ■ >fO In the month of April, 1881, I arrived in Winnipeg. One morning, going to work as a professional stair- builder, I saw the sun reflected upon a new tin roof in the opposite direction from whence she had risen a few hours before, shining in great vigor and splendor. This strange freak led me to think that the structure of the universe was far from being understood — that the law of optics was very deceiving. I began experimenting with concave and convex mirrors, and learned a great deal of optic illusions and the law governing parallaxes and refractions. In the month of December I went to the city of Hamilton glass works and had three globes blown of different sizes, with apertures at one end to see into the interior. I then had them miiTored, two out- side and one inside, in Toronto. The smallest was mirrored inside and was of much thicker glass than the other two. On experimenting, holding the globe in my hand to admit the rays of the sun through the apertine, the heat of the sun was intensified to such a degree that the globe exploded into a thousand or more fragments. With the others I continued my experiments. On look- ing through the aperture, while turned to the sun, I saw 1 I" I ! I ■ t 14 The Great Macrocosm. a small globe within suspended in mid-air with a beauti- ful borealis- I was now fi^lly convinced that my efforts were not in vain. In November, 1884, I went to Toron- to for the purpose of demonstrating the hypothesis of a solar sphere. I had two hemispheres, eight inches in diameter, mirror-plated on the outside, and experimented to my entire satisfaction. But the difficulties with so small a globe were great. From this globe I learned that the objects reflected changed their positions corres- ponding to the change of sight. When the earth was placed in the center a vaporous film was observed cir- cumscribing the sphere in the distance in apparent boundless space. On changing the globe to touch sphere, that side became opaque while the other was illuminated as bright as day. I now felt so elated with the confirmation of the hypothesis, " Eureka !" was the exclamation, like Archimides in the bath tub. I now somewhat prematurely proceeded to Ottawa to have the same patented in the name of Microcosm. This sphere was spheroidel, but lacked the lunar disk, the poles of the earth much depressed were supposed to cause the moon and could not show the true cause of eclipses. On my return to Toronto I commenced building a sphere eight feet diameter, regular ovaloid, resembling a chubby t.^%^ with door on hinges for entrance. The woodwork of sphere and globe were completed, glass moulded to ), ■■i*. IVhat Led to Discovery of Solar Sphere. 15 proper form and cut to fit the sphere, which was made in twelve sections. I found I was imable to find means j:.'-.' We proceed to give a concise description of this all- embracing system of astronomy. Statistics are taken from the ninth edition of Enc. Brit., compiled by R. A. Procter, and are undoubtedly correct. Earth's diameter we assume to be 8,000 miles, which is slightly in excess of its real measurement ; the atmosphere at midnight at 45 to 50 miles ; mid-day 1,800 miles in longitude ; the proportions of light and heat received summer and winter are as 29 to 31 ; earth 8,000 + 2,000 = 10,000 diameter of sphere, then 10,000 iL = 9,685 in latitude. We have now the .' -.31 ' dimensions of a spheroid 10,000 by 9,685 miles, making a depression of 315 miles on one side. The above proportions are aproximately correct ; the accurate pro- portions can be obtained by the solution of a geometrical series in spherical trigonometry. We will now endeavor to find a basis by which to compute what is termed a " lunar disc " in a new sense. Having learned that 33 days is the duration of an eclipse season and that the lunar disc must be placed contiguous to the autumn equinox, instead of a depression an aug- i'( w Ui. IS .\'\\yThe Great Macrocosm. mentation is added, covering Jir) by iVl degrees of the arc and swelling the sphere at the right-hand side of autnnin equinox 250 miles. This disc is in the form of an clips. It will be observed that no other form would adapt itself to the depressed sphere. This completes the solar spheroid. The chorography of the earth is in our day suffi- ciently known for scientific purposes. Its topography has been ascertained by national surveys and proven to be a spheroid, equatorial diameter varying two miles. From Cape Verde, crossing the Nile and Red Sea, from the 15° to 28° north latitude and 1()° west to 10° east longitude, or 780 miles in breadth by 1,820 miles in length, is the great desert of Sahara, with a depression of 100 to 250 feet below the level of the Atlantic; Ocean. Every 11th moor this depression crosses the lunar disc, once every 346 days, in 38 revolutions of the earth, causing the lunar inequalities which have perplexed the astronomers of all ages. We will revert 'to this when we come to treat of sun and moon. This spheroidel globe revolves within the sphere, also spheroidel, on its axis every 24 hours, and onward round the sphere once a month, or 29 ^2 days. A retrograde movement polar-wise 50'' seconds annually, or one revolution in 25,000 years nearly. The Concise Description of System. 19 earth revolves at a distance of 45 to 50 miles from the bounds of the sphere, perfonning a slight daily libration of i degree. Its monthly libration is in the form of a semi-elipse 1,500 miles at the winter solstice and 1800 miles at vernal and autumn equinox. Every monthly revolution a loop is fonned which is subject to changes from maximum to miniminn. At the autumn equinox the loop is more elongated and makes a sharper turn, causing atmospheric commotion and violent cyclones. In this monthly libration the sun, moon and planets syncronise in strict obedience thereto, performing their loops precisely the same. The sun, moon, inferior and superior planets and the innumerable stars — each family performs its part in a grand panoramic mimicry, as it were, in obeisance to their esteemed sovereign, the earth. These phenomena have no existence as entities, and are Will o' the Wisps, or optical illusions. As already observed, the earth, moving within the bounds of 50 to 60 miles from the periphery of sphere, displaces the at- mosphere to the side opposite and causes day, while the side of earth close to sphere is opaque night. At this lunar disc the atmosphere cannot be displaced and a gnomon, or image of the earth, i. cast upon the lunar disc. This is the moon in all its changing phases. The appearance of the moon being larger at rising is now satisfactorily accounted for. On the 20 north par- ■u M •' l> ' ■ ! Ill The Great Macrocosm. allel the moon would appear mucli larger at rising when full than on the "ineridian, and smaller on the southern hemisphere, as has been fully attested by all mariners in taking lunar observations. On the day side of the earth a similar gnomon is formed, but is invisible in the luminosity of the atmospheric vacuutti until it is pro- jected 21,000 miles in fictitious space as the sim we see. These gnomons i ever appear where they exist ; they are subject to the law of spherical projection. Our sight travel? in the curve of the sphere, and what appears 21,000 miles distant, is, from the fiftieth north parallel, only about (J,000 miles, at the equator about 1,800 miles. This being the case, the heat of the sun has not so far to travel to reach the earth. 92,000,000 miles is a little too much — in fact, enough to make us blush. I will offer a further explanation as to these gnomons. Take a dished mirror, presenting yourself in front of it. Your image does not appear in the glass, but be- tween you and the mirror. The sight crosses and your image is inverted, head down and feet in the air. So all phenomena we see in first reflex are inverted. In the second reflex they assume the appearance of their origi- nal. An observer on the northern hemisphere would see the south pole of the earth in the moon a few nights when full, a southern observer vice versa. The sun re- volving in twenty-five days is now seen to be correct. T Coficisr Description of System. 21 The moon*s period is about twenty-seven and one-third days ; the sun, beinjj; negative, would lose two days. The earth's movement is positive, the sun negative, moon negative, Mars positive, Jupiter negative, and Saturn Hive, Uranus negative and Neptune positive. Tl iUjection to which planets are subject and the laws governing spherical projection are exhaustively dis- cussed in vol. 19 Enc. Brit. The New Astronomy obeys these laws. They have not yet been applied to astronomy, they do not bend to distances exaggerated forty two thousand fold. Where a circle of 190 million miles is reduced by distance to the size of a lady's finger ring, they cannot apply. Kepler's laws must be applied in such cases. The refraction of light is difficult to explain. See diagram, left-hand lower corner of solar and sideral sphere, where sun and moon gnomons are shown and the course light travels in ; the dotted lines show the course of light from the projected gnomons, the sun in the curve of 42,000 miles diameter, the moon 10,500 miles diameter. Parallaxes are shown upper left-hand corner of sidereal spheres. They are caused by the earth's move- ment in solar sphere, and fully accoiuit for the apparent loops in all phenomena. I't i I 111 ■ !' i I , ! i N :i 22 The Great Macrocosm. The spiral motion of the moon in disc is shown at right-hand corner of sidereal spheres. This is the un- solvable problem, the querry of ages. The solar sphere, and earth within, explains the summer solstice. Six months later would enter the winter solstice. An annular eclipse of the sun is shown. Moon's shadow does not reach the earth and a ring round the sun is the resvilt. See " Solar Sphere," page 46. , ,. , INFANCY OF THE EARTH. This lunar disc was once the craciie of an embryotic world, a rude, chaotic mass of primeval urschleim (pro- toplasm) ; emenating from which, in quest of nourish- ment from the bosom of its maternal circumembeance, when, in the language of the Chaldean sage, the morn- ing stars shouted for joy, at a time prior to which there was no time? and time now was ; what time has elapsed since that time would be expressed in millions of years. The approximate age may be computed from the equa- torial excess of — = 13 miles growth for each pole 2 during one revolution retrograde in 25,868 years. We Infancy of the Earth. 28 assume that the earth developed from a nucleus of 2,000 miles from the dawn of time to the present. When 3,000 miles would have been added, then 25,868 x 3^252= 5,969,538 years, — the world's age. This is on the basis of uniform development. Its growth may have been much greater in younger days, the sustenance for this growth being supplied as intimated from the solar sphere, enlarging the sphere correspondingly to the earth's growth. In evidence of this we have the astro- nomic theory that the sun is drawing nearer, and some wild calculations as to the time when the sun would consume the earth. The nearing of the sun is only an appearance caused by the gradual enlargement of sphere and gives no ground for such apprehensions. The quintessence or composition of the sphere is a speculative question. Recent discoveries of liquid air cast their shadows and suggest questions in great variety, viz. : Does the annual rain-fall come from the atmospheric vapor arising from the earth ? Would this vapor fill the bill for thirty or forty inches annually ? This appears doubtful. If a cannon ball was fired perpendicular at midnight near the equator, where the atmosphere is thinnest, would it ever come down ? Would the New- tonian gravitation draw the ball to the ground ? Might not this apparent attraction be a force, or pressure, in- creasing as you ascend, but sufficient to exert a pressure nli »h 24 Tke Great Macrocosvi. of fifteen pounds to the inch at the earth's surface ? If it is difficult to breathe at an altitude of 10,000 feet, what would it be at the altitude of 28,000 feet ? which has not yet been reached by man, beast, or highest flying bird ; the pressure would be so great that respira- tion would be impossible, the blood would ooze from every pore. Now, think of forty or fifty miles, sup- posed to be the utmost limits of the terrestrial atmos- phere, an absolute and entire vaccuum, would now be the surroundings, where matter would be attomized in a moment of time, and '^ould jnly exist in a molecular If water can be made to boil at seventy-five degrees in a vacuum, when two hundred and twelve degrees are required in the open air, how sensitive would this vacuum be to the electric rays of the solar sphere ? Its heat is felt instantly on the removal of obscuring clouds, and is in its origin, not far distant — 92,000,000 miles is out of the question and, without a doubt will be an exploded theory, like many others in the near future. The analytic composition of the solar sphere is unknown. Its discovery will be an achievement of the 20th century by a genius who may not yet have seen the light of day. I will not offer an opinion as to what are its consistencies. I have plucked and partaken of Description of Planets. 25 the delicious fruits of speculation to the satiation of my aged hunger, but the solution I will leave to succes- sors, confidently believing that its achievement will not be long delayed. It may, in fact, already be known by some mental Titian, who refrains from expressing his convictions, fearing to become a laughing stock of the incredulous. ^'■'ii\r-\r-:-- .n-:--:^-- ' -^i.x-^' .' '■''■^•\>-i-\\yi'-:S':A''-i\ 'Vi'-i "■ ■■■ '»/ (>.;< ;■? f! .ii 1 DESCRIPTION OF PLANETS. SUN AND MOON. rv*'>, p}... The vacuum of the solar sphere, with all contained therein from storm-clouds and molecular nebula, projects a gnomon, or focns, 21,000 miles distant in fictitious space. As the sun we see in all the brilliancy of an existing orb, swayed by earth and solar sphere, b'^edding its vivifying beams at all times upon half the earth and the whole sidereal heavens, its revolutions are negative, the solar vacuum spheres, swayed by the earth is posi- tive, the earth therefore gains two revolutions, so that when the sun has performed 365.25 revolutions the earth has made 367.25 revolutions. This will no doubt appear anomalous and too much for the ordinary reader to grasp. I ! /■ I: ';, 26 The Great Macrocosm. It has however, the sanction of the most advanced astronomers of our day ; how attained by them, having no knowledge of solar sphere and negative movements, I do not know. It may be by them a theory based on experience and observation but does not belong to the Copernican system. - . . I do not wish to leave the reader in this perplexing maize, and will endeavor to explain the anomaly by a mental problem. Our measurements of the year are based on solar time. Here are two men, born at the same place, on the same day. One travels east and the other west around the earth, meeting at their natal homes, each having performed one revolution around the earth in opposite directions. On comparing diaries, there is a difference of two days in their ages. The one who tra\ died with the sun lost a day, while the other gained a day. Now, we can see that if you travelled as fast as the sun appears to travel continuously you would never grow older by solar time. Just so with positive and negative movements. Two days would be the difference in the annual revolutions of earth and sim, 865.25 + 2 days gained would be 367.25 earth revolutions. We will examine the moon and find there are only eleven moons sidereal time. Then 11+2 = 1C subtracted from 367.25 = 354.25, divided by 13 = 27.35 days for average sidereal moon. Dividing by Description of Pi a nets 21 12 = 29. 53 days synodical time, to this we have added the precession of the equanox in both cases. To find the respective sidereal month is a difficult task. They all differ in their respective times. The moon's accurate periods can only be obtained by ot ervation through his spiral cycle of 18. (> years, when the same routine of eclipses will be repeated. By this means eclipses can be computed for centuries in advance. This is the Metonic cycle of ancient Greece. . By careful manipulation of earth and moon disk in solar sphere, which is simk in cover of this book, the period of 18.B years can be verified by 223.2 revolutions of earth and 241.8 revolutions of lunar sphere, when all will coincide with position of beginning. / , >, 241 incommensurable terms may well be said to be insolvable. Admitting the possibility of its solution, life is too short to attempt it. Suppose the moon's variation from the center of spiral disk to outer limits and return were uniform the 241.8 terms might be reduced to % = 60.45, but still too complicated a series for practical solution. The Moon is above all the most erratic and per- plexing in its movements. I cannot hope to fathom the antics of this singular nonentity, which has baffled the profession in all age.s. It is involved in 241 incom- »•( 11! iiiiii ' I 28 The Great Macrocosm. mensurable time values. I despair of solving the problem — perhaps cannot and never will be solved — a^ its movements are spiral (see spheres). What is known as the Metonic cycle was the greatest achievement ancient or modern. It was engraved in letters of gold on tables of brass by Ancient Greece, whence it received the appelation of golden number. Hippecus, of Alex- andrian school fame, went one better by introducing epicycles to meet the requirements of the lunar in- equalities, thereby avoiding the solution of an incom- mensurable series. The golden number is still in use and is published in our calendars annually. We represent the form of the ellipse around which the moon circles annually, showing the constantly changing loops from apogee to parogee. The earth's revolutions do not make an integral number of days, but fractional, requiring 18.6 years to return to the same position. The intricacies will now be fully appreciated. We have already made reference to the dessert of Sahara. From the south of Cape Blanco, a broad belt extends north-east a distance of 1,300 miles from 50 to 300 miles in breadth. Clouds of red dust arises from this dessert, frequently obscuring the atm.osphere from Cape Verde to the American coast. It is said to be possible to create an inland sea south of Algeria and -PB? ■;WA^'^ V Description of Planets. 29 Tunis of an average depth of 78 feet, with an area of 3,100 square miles. M. De Lesseps visited the locality in 1883 and reported that the canal would cost 150,000,- 000 franks. The greatest depths would be 250 to 300 feet. The moon, like a tangib^^ object, would move in the direction of greatest vacuity and locate itself in tie zenith of this depression for a short time. This may well be supposed to account in part for the lunar in- equalities, but the primary cause is constitutionally incorporated in the spherodical globe. This depression extends across the Nile and Red Sea. The flooding of the dessert would not restore the moon to uniform movement but only triflingly affect its nodes. The moon or gnomen never leaves the lunar disk. At a solar eclipse the moon is still within the same disk 14.76 days after full moon. The zodiac having turned half ways around brings the moon to the place of conjunction with the sun. Every 27.35 days the zodiac performs one revolution. In other words, the earth performs a monthly revolution which amounts to the same as zodiac having revolved. This movement is not realized. The appearance is that the moon moves from east to west every night, but in reality it is us that move from west to east. The moon has the limits of a semi-ellipse, 35 by 32 degrees, wherein to play its pranks as a will-o'- the-wisp in obedience to the topography of the earth. The Great Macrocosm. When the position and disposition of the moon is understood it does not require much penetration of thought to arrive at the conchisions herein set forth. Another singularity of the moon will be noticed, the moon is the gnomon of full size of solar sphere. The gnomon is enveloped in the terrestrial atmosphere, causing the appearance of a moon within a moon, which has often been commented upon but never accounted for. If the earth was a complete circle, eclipses would be as simple as the rising and setting of the sun, and no golden number would then be required for co^ iputing eclipses. The moon would confine himself to \\ic centre of the disk and be as well behaved as the ponderous Jupiter, or any other of his near relatives. His ill-behavior is here- ditary. His 'Services in the night much more than counter- balance all the trouble he has caused th^ astronomic profession. His diameter is 39 miles, his libration is that of the earth, about 1,700 miles in longtitude and 1,500 in latitude. Mercury and the Sun. — The Sun is the mother of Mercury, the smallest of the planets. She keeps so close to her mother that her observation is rendered difficult. Her mean distance is the same as that of the sun, 21,000 miles. See table of elements, page 44. i: Description of Planets. df Venus and Mercury. — Mercury is the mother of Venus, the brightest of all the planets. Ivike the moon, she exhibits the same phases through her period of 224.70 days. Mean distance, the same as that of Mer- cury and the Sun. See table of elements, page 44. The next in order of succession is the planet Mars. The moon is the parent of this phenomenon. Mars in- herited much of the eccentricities of his father, but in a less degree. His iniquities are less conspicuous than his father's ; he seems to have more regard for decency in the performance of his annual circuit, and with great familiarity approaches the very pre^rmcts of his grand- mother's tabernacle, the sun, and appears to seat him- self for a short time on the queenly throne, enjoying the felicities of royalty. Every 686.97 days Mars performs the same circuit with imerring precision. His size is much less than hitherto assigned to him — diameter about 50 miles, mean distance about 21,000 miles. The above makes Mars a grandchild of the earth. If he moved equa-distant from his grandfather, the earth, the above figurative description would be true. As he does not do so, his orbit extends beyond the sun about 12,000 miles, and makes distance from the earth 30,000 -^ The Great Macrocosm. miles in parhelion, and 12,000 in aphelion, which is the most favorable position for observation. His libration is the same as that of the moon. See table of elemen's, page 44. Jupiter and Earth. — Jupiter is next in the order of succession, and is composed of earth and solar sphere + moon's sphere + mars sphere + mercury sphere + venus sphere, and consequently exhibits these four planets as satelites hovering round him. You may well be astonished that this has remained unknown till the twentieth century A.D. Then as an inevitable consequence at a total eclipse of the moon, two of Jupiter's satelites will be eclipsed and the planet Mars blotted from the femiament. If this is not the case there is a screw loose in my philosophy. I have no means of ascertaining the facts and leave it in the hands of the astronomic profession for verification. For distance and magnitude see table of elements, page 44. Saturn and Jupiter. — Saturn is the last planet that will here be discussed. Jupiter is his parent, and therefore a grandchild of the earth His sphere is com- posed of Jupiter sphere, mars sphere and moon sphere, with four satelites + moon + mars + venus -f mercury, making eight satelites. Mars, moon, mercury and venus ^ Description of Planets. 88 repeat their hovering around saturn as they did around Jupiter. The excess of solar sphere over and above the earth — 8,000 miles — reflects a luminous ring round the planet, followed by moon ring, mars ring and jupiter ring, mercury ring and venus ring, five successive rings but not always visable. To convey an unmistakeably clear conception of the rings, we will suppose jupiter to consist of four consecutive spheres. We cut jupiter and spheres fair through the middle as you would cut an apple in two. Each half is now a fair representation of his rings, the satelites would be observed in their true positions within their respective rings. See table of elements, page 44. Asteroids. — The asteroids are a conglomeration of the combined efforts of mars, moon, mercury and venus. They all career between mars and jupiter spheres. They vary in size as the respective planets vary. Those of mercury are so small that they might be buried in a Manitoba farm. The moon is the primary cause of asteroids : 12 moons, 3 mercuries x by 4 = 12 . . 24 18 venuses and 57 mars ..... 75 i ! f; Total 99 34 The Great Macrocosm. It is possible astronomers discovered the same over and over again. Three were discovered in 1875, making 148 in total up to that time. How many were dis- covered since then we have no record. -'I.:;.:- 'j^v^'i 'v STARS AND EARTH. This is a subject so anomalous in its nature and inscrutable to the senses that it has led astronomers to enormous exaggerations in distances, and baffled all attempts at a reasonable solution. This the new astronomy teaches that the stars are not so .mmeasurably distant but are companions of the earth. The cause for assign- ing them such great distances is quite clear. They do not show any sensible parallax during the earth's annual circuit of a diameter of one hundred and ninety million miles. In accordance Vv^ith the Copernican system they had to be placed at such distance that this orbit would appear no larger than a ladies' fingering, so as to cause no sensible parallax. The stars being companions of the earth is the very reason they do not show a parallax ; whatever direction the earth moves they must follow. Stars and Earttu Observe the dipper in the constellation of Ursa major, always visable from the 50° north parallel for the entire circuit. Six months later the north star, dipper, sun, moon and zodiac, and all within the solar sphere will occupy the place of the present south pole. In ;i(jr). 25 days they will have performed one revolution. Should the reader fail to grasp this movement he will forever be lost in this sidereal maize. We are insensible to this movement but such are the facts. We will now examine the stars composing the dipper, the pointers being about 20° and 23° respectively from the north star ; those forming the handle of the dipper about 23°, 23i^°, 24° and 28° respectively. With a wire, bent to the curve of the solar sphere, about ^ circumference in length, place one end to cross pointers ; stick the other end into the earth at the point where it would stand perpendicular to the horizon. By turning the wire once roimd, notice the circle described by dipper and position on earth. This will convey an idea of the amount of refraction due to each star. These seven stars are in the vicinity of Behring Straits, Alaska, or Asia, and are caused by mountains yet unexplored. The most northerly I am familiar with is Mt. St. Elias, too far south to belong to the dipper category. The Rocky mountains, so fonnid- ably arrayed extending from the 70th parallel to the Andes of South America, at regular intervals reflect a 36 The Great Macrocosm. luminous galaxy of innumerable stars, from north to south, familiarly termed the milky way, in which the bays and gulfs of the Pacific Ocean are faintly visible. To this galaxy all the stars of the universe contribute their images, so infinitesimally small that they appear no more than nebulous clusters. To explain intelligibly how stars are formed I will resort to the dished mirror, say about twelve inches ii. diameter and four or five inches deep. Holding mirror close to your face to allow your nose to nearly touch the glass, the prominence of your nasal protuberance reflected in the mirror, conveys an idea how stars are formed by mountains. Your face, all but nose, will be suffused all over the mirror in a vaperous film, and nose concentrated to a distinct nucleus. Upon this mountain nucleus the sun is reflected and a full-fledged star is projected. Stars within the zodiac would appear to increase in magnitude from the setting of the sun to midnight, and then diminish until they are lost in the morning's sun. This is on account of being much nearer at midnight than evening and morning, their distance varies from about 7,000 to 10,000 miles. Stars repeat themselves in other parts of the firmament, sometimes singly but mostly in clusters, much smaller than their original size. So there are stars of stars and clusters of clusters till they assume the appearance of mere nebulous aggrega- Stars and Earth. 37 tions. Stars revolving around each other duplicate and triplicate will be satisfactorily accounted for. Nebula are also caused by the terrestrial atmospheric con- ditions. The red sand clouds, frequently extending across the Atlantic, having their source in the African dessert, would 'answer well for the nebula in the sword handle of Orion. There are other depressions that may be nebula producing. The Caspian and Dead Sea have similar depressions. The Leonides and parseites will likely be accounted for by hints herewith given. As for comets they are of little account. So long as icebergs will be drifting through Davis and Behring Straits we will have these occasional visitors. If these straits were closed up we would be tolerably free from such scare- crows, at least so far as the northern hemisphere is concerned. .-:/■.■: \ There is another class of phenomenon that may be mentioned, such as floating matter held almost in equilibrium near the limits of the terrestrial atmosphere where vacuum pressure would slowly allow it to descend, increasing in rapidity to free itself from this pressure, and heated to a degree of ignition, descending faster and faster, and if not consumed strike the earth with an explosive sound. In 1862 I witnessed the dropping of such a phenomenon, eight miles from Lake Huron, «m 88 The Great Macrocosm. passing over my head like a ball of- fire with great velocity, two or three thousand yards in the air, and in less than a minute dropped into Lake Huron with a cannon sound. This was near the village of Port Elgin. What it was could not be ascertained, as it dropped in ten or twenty fathoms of water. Any substance of matter projected into this vacuum would be atomised in an instant of time. If not projected with sufficient force it would gradually descend as above described. -i ' '' ( , *i" ON THE PHENOMENON OF PARALLAX. The causes of parallax can now be satisfactorily explained. All phenomena are subject to this illusion, except at the equinox. Sight travels in the curve of the spheres, and continuous parallel lines have no existence. AH lines from any part of the earth meet in a common focus. The earth's shadow never extends a great distance beyond the moon disk. When the sun and moon are in conjunction at an eclipse, the moon's shadow would have no parallax, and extend to the earth. At the vernal equinox the shadow would be much On the Phenomenon of Parallax. 39 shorter and cause an annular eclipse. The sphere at this point is more curved, therefore the shadow will be much shorter. Similar at autumn equinox, the shadow would not reach the earth and cause an annular eclipse. The moon would not cover the whole sun ; a ring would be visible round the eclipse. At the summer and winter solstice, the shadow would be longer and cause a total eclipse. The sphere at this point is the shortest diameter and flatter, more so at the winter solstice. See solar sphere, page 46. . ; . «> We have now detailed the secular aspect of astrono- my as it affects the senses of inhabitants of the revolving earth. The occult aspect is that phase of astronomy that would be experienced by an observer unconnected with the earth's movements, were it possible for such conditions to obtain. This aspect is fully detaiku by our engineer, as you will see in the next few pages. The third aspect is that of an observer stationed upon the sun. Moving around the earth, his senses would be differently effected, the earth performing 354 revolutions, 13 times around, gaining 2 each round = 26 + 354 = 380 revolutions in appearance in a year of 365 days. Observer's period would only be 13 revolu- tions during which he would have seen 14 moons. 1 /■* I 40 The Great Macrocosm. POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MOVEMENTS. The earth revolves from west to east as a positive Motor. The Moon is negative, Mars positive, Mercury negative, Venus positive, Jupiter negative, Saturn posi- tive, Uranus negative, Neptune positive. These positive and negative movements are the most intricate of all problems, confounding matliemti- cians unless the science of engineering is well under- stood. I have therefore placed an engineer at the right hand corner of the solar and sidereal sphere, uncon- nected with terrestrial movements, observing the actual revolutions of earth and planets in their positive and negative movements during the year. An astronomer is placed with telescope upon the earth observing the revolutions without regard to positive or negative movements, and on comparing results a great discrepancy is noticed, each contending for the accuracy of their observations. An altercation ensues and charges and countei charges, not creditable to each, other were indulged in. The case is submitted to a competent court of jurisdiction. The astronomer deposes that the Positive and Negative Movements. 41 earth had made 365.25 revolutions, and that there were twelve successive moons in the year. The engineer deposes that the earth had only made 354 revolutions, that the astronomer's depositions were false, and that he claims undue credit for one revolution, that he saw him make one monthly revolution after the year had expired, and that he claims undue credit for one moon after the year had expired, that there were only eieven moons in the year and no more. The jury rendered a verdict for acquittal, that the engineer was correct in synodical time, and that the astronomer was correct in sidereal time. See solar and sidereal sphere, page 46. This is in agreement with what is said on motion of earth, sun and sphere. What is now to follow should be written in letters of diamond on tablets of gold. The movements of earth and sphere may be compared to a wheel within a wheel, cog-geared, earth moving from west to east on a moving center of a semi-ellipse. Here we have both wheels positive, very different from planets. The sphere, being a positive movement, becomes negative in the distant sun, gaining one day. The annual revolution of the earth, one day = 2days, which in the above computation is included in the earth's revolutions, 367.25. 42 The Great Macrocosm. We will take the moon to explain these diamond numbers, which extend to the remotest planets, each having a different number by which their periods can be computed, sidereal and synodic. Their loops indicate their synod. 11 + 1 = 12 is the diamond number synodic, and 12 + 1 = 13 is the sidereal number. These mnnbers, divided into 367.25-13 = 354.25, 13-354.25 = 27.25 precession of equinox for 13 months = 10, added to 27.25 = 27.35 average— sidereal month. 12 + 354.25 = 29.52 precession of 1 month = .01 added to 29.52 = 29.53. This is a problem similar to the hour and minute hands of a clock. At what time would they be in conjunction after a given hour ? 11 + 12 + given time, will give the point to the minutest fraction. On the same principle we can find the conjunction of all the planetary movements. In the table of elements the diamond numbers are given correctly without adding or subtracting equinoxial precession, excepting the numbers for moon periods. I do not claim scientific accuracy in distance or dimensions, as given in the table. I have at present no means of obtaining measurements with exactitude, until an observatory is built of sufficient dimensions no warranted accuracy can be tabulated. The largest instrument I have had in operation was about two feet in diameter — too small to determine distances or ispcatB Positive and Negative Moi ements. 43 diameters. The multiple 2. is nearly correct for the moon and mars, but as we advance to jupiter and saturn the spheres become so large that their arcs are nearly straight, and the projective power is diminished. Jupiter and Saturn's diameter cannot be ascertained by the root of any power. Jupiter derives his appearance from the projected gnomons of sun, mercury, venus, mars and moon as satelites diminished to less than half their size. If the sun were 240 miles, jupiter would be about 99, and saturn about 80. We will now not be so surprised by jupiter having such a resemblance to the sun, as given by R. A. Procter in minute detail. iiliill liiiiiii 44 > The Great Macrocosm. Table of Distances from the Earth, an^fi Dia. ters Approximately Gwnputed. Solar Sphbrb. Diameters. Mean Distance. Venus Mercury — ftiin 10,000-f2x3v/B 10,000^4x3^3 10,000 500 11.5 9 191 39 oO 99 125 64 158 From sun 7.500 21,000 From sun 3.750 21,000 Moon Disc ^. 3x3x3=27 10,500 4-2 4-27 x2 21,000 Moon 21,000 X 3 \/3 X2 10,500 30,000 Parh.v 21,000 Mars 42,000 X 3 >/3 2x2x2=8 Asteroids 12,000 Aph. s Jupiter 326,000 X 3 v/3 X2 163,000 Saturn 652,000 X 3 v'3 - Ring X2 326,000 Uranus l,304,0(,t0 X 3 v/3 - Ring x2 652,000 \ 79 206 Nentune 2,608,000 X 3 V3 - Ring 1,304,000 3/10 58 Multiply Solar Sphere from sun downward by 2 in succession. From sun upward divide spheie by 2 for Venus and by 4 for Mer- cury. Multiply the results by 3 and extract cube root for diameter, radius of spheres being the distance from the earth. Diamond Numbers to Find Siderial and Synodicai Periods. Names. Venus . . . Mercury . Sun Moon Mars Jupiter . . Saturn . . Uranus . . Neptune . Diamond Numbers. 1.6255-^ .H256^ 4. 1524 -j- 8. 1547 -r 365.25 13-f 12-:- .5317-^ .4317-^ .084303-=- .91573-1- . 0033955 -^ . 96604 -r . 0011902 -r- .9880-;- 00607467^ .9939-r Year in Days. 865.25 365.25 365.25 365.25 365.25 354.25 354.25 365.25 365.25 365.25 365.25 365.25 365.25 365.25 365.25 365.25 365.25 .Siderial Period in Days. 224.70 87.96 1 year 27.35 686.96 4332.58 10759.21 30686.82 60126.72 Synodicai Period in Days. 778.93 115.78 354.25 29.53 778.93 338.86 378.09 369.65 367.48 Copernican System. Distance from Sun, Miles. 66,184,000 35.392,000 92,000,000 240.000 139,000,000 475,000,000 872,187,000 1,753,869,000 2,745,998,000 Diameter, Milep. 7,510 3,158 851,900 2,000 4,363 84,846 70,186 33,245 37,275 Divide the diamond number in first column into 365.25. Moon number into 354.25, for periods of sun, moon and planets. 40 The Great Macrocosm. i }sitivcano NmoMTum lfO¥EHKNTm SOLAR AND SIDEREAL SPHERE. Engineer's Address to Astronomers. 47 ..'-rt,....; ENGINEER'S ADDRESS TO ASTRONOMERS. Gentlemen of the profession, Having occupied the position of an occult scientist, and now waked up to the realities of this mundane sphere of life realizing and appreciating the accuracies to which you have attained in the observation of periodic times of Celestial phenomena, I tender you my apology for the displeasure caused in controversy, I now bury the hatchet and extend to you the right hand of fellow- ship. In the interests of science and common humanity, I appeal to your unbiased judgment on the New Astrono- my revealed by the Microcosm. It is necessary to im- press upon your mind the importance of three essential and indispensable factors to be taken into account to arrive at accurate conclusions. First, the Law of Spherial Projection ; Second, the I^aw governing Paral- laxes ; Third, the I,aw of Refraction of Light. These laws are precisely analagous to the law of optics. When 48 The Great Macrocosm. & m\ an object is imaged upon the shifting retina of the human eye in syncronism with distance, corresponding precisely to the parallexical shifting of the earth's centre of rotation, projecting its image upon the hmar disc in syncronism with varying distance, caused by the daily and monthly libration of the earth, — with a knowledge of these laws we have a set of keys by which to unlock the combinations of the great microcosm. A star has arisen in the east, never more to sink below the intellectual horizon. You are now in posses- sion of the keys that will open wide the doors to the hidden arcanum of the universe. Pass them on to pos- terity's archives of nations unborn as an achievement of the dawn of the twentieth century of the Christian Era. You may now discard your instruments and solve the problems by mathematical computation. The errors of 300 years have been victoriously combatted, the golden immber of Meton, which has served 2,500 years and now retires to its superannuate stage in a wreath of honor. The " Diamond Numbers " discovered by one Martin Hoover, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, will take its place through the centuries of succeeding cycles. Engineer's Address to Astronomers. 49 The edifice of astronomy is now founded upon a rock, with its dome towering to the altitude of the pre- sumably undiscovered Pleiades, in an unfading halo of everlasting glory. HIPPARCHUS, B.S.C.E. !■■ 50 The Great Macrocosm. ml The annexed cut shows the P™3-^ f-^ g"°3" °\ sun The moon's shadow does not reach the earth, a ring around the sun is therefore nnobscured. , The gnomon of moon is shown at zero. In this position n'o eclipse of the "-" -f \°^^;? Xrt earth advanced abont 14 days, so that when the deprcs "on oTihe Sahara would cross the hmar d:sk a tota ecUpse of the moon would follow. If only the outer I- nfts of moon disk crossed the Sahara the echpse wonld be partial. When the moon rises within the limits of from 15 to 25 degrees north latituce the eclipse would be total. For the purpose of showing the two aspects of ecliples in one cut sun and moon, we show the gnomon : ron near zero of sphere. It will be observed * moon is now in conjunction with the sun. 14 days ater the lunar disk will be at zero or autumn e^uanox with its loop, when an eclipse will take place. ■' I i>" 'S=: Solar Sphere. 51 SOLAR SPHERE. Showing Annular Eclipse of Sun, and Moon approaching an Eclipse fourteen days later. {See Light Refraction of Vol. U, Enc. Brit.) 52 The Great Macrocosm. DIRECTIONS For Manipulating Earth and Moon Sphere^ Three Sciences G>mb'neclt Astronomy, Geology, and Mgterology— See Plate Sunk ^ in the G)ver of Book. . , • ,. ,1 % Tarn Zero of earth to Autumn Equinox an.d loop 1 also to Zero, in this position a double header cyclone results. Now turn earth in direction of arrow 30°, and moon loop 2 backwards to Zero and so on til 0° of earth and moon loop 1 again coincide at autumn Equinox which will come to pass in about 18 years for another tearing cyclone. Every antumn Equinox will cause great atmospheric commotion but less in degree. Always take notice of the position the earth holds in the sphere, any narrow cramping will cause storms more or less violent. You can also foretel high and low tide by the position sun, moon and earth occupy. By studying the earth's movements every mathematician can be at once astronomer, geologist, and meterologist, and while away his leisure hours in the noble pursuit of knowledge. On the opposite side is sphere and earth for purpose of geology and geography. Its movements are latitud- inal and brings the earth to all possible positions in the sphere. — See cover of book. . * Astronomic Review. 53 ASrRONOMIC REVIEW. ''4 There is a great difference in distances and magni- tudes and who is to blame, not the profession, but the erroneous system of Copernicus which has led them astray. For centuries of ardent study with the most approved instruments astronomy has made no essential progress, gazing at planets, comets and sun spots, endeavoring to analyze phantasmic worlds from 33 million to 2,720 million miles distant by sceptroscopic analysis, not realizing that they were analyzing the very air they breathed, and what has been accomplished? simply nothing, excepting Gallileo discovering jupiters, satelites and saturns rings through a lead pipe. I do not mean to cast reflections on the profession. I was born with a love of astronomy. Had I gone to an obser- vatory in my youth, gazing through telescopes, I would* no doubt be a faithful disciple of Copernicus and perhaps have analyzed sun, moon and planets. Not having done so I have reason to feel truly thankful. I have analyzed at one stroke sun, moon, planets and stars, and can give their analysis should I be called upon to do so. Humiliat- ing as it may be to astronomers let them stand erect like men of an honorable profession and accept the inevitable, the old will be forgotten and the new will take its place. 54 The Great Macrocosm. PRE-EMINENCE OF GEOLOGY. This treatise commenced on astronomy and ends with the preponderence of geology. So intimately are these sciences connected that they are about synonymous. Astronomy gracefully yields to the modest and incontest- able claims of geology for supremacy in the rank of •sciences. The earth possesses all the elements for man's well being and happiness, it yields the fruitions of life to its billion inhabitants in due season. 150 years ago a babe was born, ( Geology) destined to become the monarch of science struggling for an existence by the perversity of the age, has now grown to the full stature of manhood and henceforth will assume the sovereignty of the citadel of man's intellect. The language of a Demosthenes would fail adequately to extol its merits. 1 :an not express the magnanimity of its capabilities. Tvly bosom heaves with throbbing emotions in the contemplation of its incalculable unfoldings. Look to the sun you see its image, look to the moon you see its image, look where you will to the siderial heavens you see the image of your foot stool and finally the earth is our tabernacle in time and our sepulcher in death. Grave now may gain its victory when death has lost its sting. On the Macrocosm. 55 ON THE MICRCXOSM. Having had descriptive recourse to all known expedi- ents short of j a Macrocosm in demonstration of causes of phenomena, I feel as though something more was wanting which want can only be supplied by the erection of an observatory or Microcosm. If built by private enterprise a fee for admission would necessarily be exacted. Dimensions of 40 feet diameter would cost from 25 to 30 thousand dollars. Being familiar with all the requisites for automatic movements I would furnish details for the erection of same in the City of Winnipeg. It would be patronized from all parts irrespective of fees charged, and also a memorial of the greatest dis- covery, ancient or modern. Observatories should be built by government as national institutions to familiar- ize the movements of Celestial phenomena without the aid of telescope. I would be pleased to hear of any movement in such direction either in Winnipeg or Toronto. The latter is the place of the final discovery of the Microcosm in 1886. fl* ■f i ■1< 5t i 56 The Great Macrocosm. THE FAMILY CIRCLE. Twinkle, twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are, — This is the song of childhood in the simplicity of infancy. Father, mother and children gather in the evening family circle in the home sweet home when the sun, moon and stars become the absorbing subject for the evening. Questions are asked by children and answered by the father in the most pathetic manner. " How big is the moon, Pa, and how far is it from us ? " " The moon is 2,000 miles diameter, and 240,000 miles distant." " Why it don't look that big, just last night I saw it in a tree top not bigger than mama's wash tub. Do people live in the moon ? " " It it reasonable to suppose that the moon is inhabited by beings constituted for a rare atmosphere like that of the moon ; respiration would be impossible for us in so rare an atmosphere." " How big is the sun, is it so far off also ^ " " Yes, it is immensely further off. It is 95,000,000 miles dis- tant and all the worlds in stellar space would not make half its bulk." The Family Circle. 57 " Pa, how do you know it*s that big? " " Astrono- mers tell us so, who make it their study by aid of power- ful telescopes and should know all about it." " How big are the stars, are they so far off too ? " " Yes, my dear child, immensely further off and are much bigger than the earth we live on. 95,000,000 miles double would be a circle of 190,000,000 miles diameter. This ring, large as it is, would appear no bigger than your mama's finger f^x^.^ when viewed from some of the stars. Light, you know, travels at great speed would require many years to reach us from some of the stars." *' Pa, do we not see the same stars every night, how can so many years elapse from one night to the next? " " That is quite simple ; when the light has once reached the earth it remains for all time, by turning round with the earth's revolution we catch a glimpse of the same stars night after night." The child is now reconciled to the anomaly, accepts the reasoning as incontestable truth. Its mind is now sufficiently off uscated to accept the most palpable fallacies of the mysterious universe. 58 The Great Macrocosm, SUMMARY OF SYSTEM. If there is anything the Microcosm does not account for it is unknown to me what it can be. The solar sphere and earth revolving within accounts for all phenomena, viz : Day and night, the seasons throughout the year and solar time variations. The tropics and declination of sun 23.5 degrees and precession of the Equinox. The moon and all its peculiarities. The eclipses of sun and moon in their manifold varieties. The librations, maxinmm and minimum, of sun, moon and planets. The parallaxes of all phenomena from sun to nep- tune. It reveals the planets in pairs librating on one centre. It proves beyond all doubt that the semi-ellipses of all the orbits are caiised by the spheroidel form of solar sphere. wrnrn^ Summary of System. 59 The sun and inferior planets are a reflex of sphere, Moon and Mars. Jupiter and Satelites are a reflex of Sphere, Moon, Mars, Mercury and Venus. Saturn and Satelites are a reflex of Sphere, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venlis, and Jupiter with his Satelites. Uranus and Satelites are a reflex of Sphere with all contained therein. Neptune the same. Satelites are now nearly all invisibly small. This system postulates the universality of matter to the full limits of existing space, and a world without end. The true astronomy is now given to the world and it can not be annihilated. There is not the shadow of a probability that it is untrue. It may be opposed on pecuniary grounds but never refuted. It might be crushed for a short time but truth crushed to earth is sure to revegetate with tenfold vigor. Its truth is demonstrated by astronomic data. It is proven by mathematics and verified by observation and experience) therefore invincible in every respect, and will be hailed as the projenitor of science and the revelation of the structure of the universe. 60 The Great Macrocosm. A POEM, The earth within the solar sphere Proclaims a power divine ; Sun, earth and sphere in one combine, To constitute this mighty shrine ; The dazzling rays of day and night, Bespeak a realm of power and might. Omnipotence is here revealed, No longer now in miths concealed. Anthropomorphic forms will vanish. From mind gross superstitution banish ; Let every clime and every tongue, Thy praises shout in verse and song. From all the Zones antipodes. Declare the three great Enteties. Synoptic Briefs. 61 SYNOPTIC BRIEFS. The eatth or sun swaying of the orbs is a debatable question. I have on several occasions at social gather- ings introduced the analogous question, whether going round a tree with a squirrel on the side opposite you, moving around the tree to hide itself as you advance, would you go round the squirrel ? In this question the disputants invariably decide about equally for pro and con, and some suddenly change from pro to con and vise versa. It may be reasoned that the dynamic force of sun does sway the earth as you would sway the squirrel, like nature is said to hate a vacuum, and I will concede this to count one to Copernicus. I would not dispute its being geocentric or heleocentric, it is both, the solar sphere being the primary sun. Siderial and synodic are interchangeable terms. What is synodic to us occupants of the revolving earth is siderial to our engineer. There is one revolution we have no name for. It is the annual revolution of the Zodiac and has no moon, but counts one, making 13, but only 12 moons. The 12th. moon is completed in the succeeding year =11 ij2 The Great Macrocosm. moons in the derial year as experienced by our engineer. The Solar Spheroid is the true cause of seasons Summer and Winter. Were it a sphere neither years nor seasons could obtain, days and months would be the only data by which to measure time, eclipses would be regular every month, sun, moon and the planets all have the same periods. There is some ground for believing that the true Cosmology was well understood at some remote epoch, long before historic times, which can not be traced be- yond 5,000 years, and through changes of language, translations and traditions, interpolations have crept in till only a faint glimmer of it was left at the earliest period of historic time. Man as an image of the Macrocosm vaguely points (in a physiological aspect) to a philosophy long anterior to Egyptian or Hindo mythology. So does the Egg world of ancient nations indicate a scientific cosmology of remote epochs. There is little reason for thinking that science and literature had never obtained before historic times. When we peer down the thousands of centuries that span the epochs we may reasonably conclude that the intellectual development of the age is only a repeti- tion of a remote past with one step in advance. Such Synoptic Briefs. (JIJ seems to be the slow but sure achievements of evohition. The Hellenic and Roman civilizations are as but yester- day, and belong to the catagory of the present epoch. Had not a seal been placed upon the lips we would have been spared the dismal gloom of fifteen centuries of dark- ness and stand pre-eminently above the present mantal- ity of man. It may be doubted if the present age has yet attained to the intellectual caliber of the ancient Greeks. It takes a longer time to remove the intellectual shackles than it does to apply them. We have a tacit recognition of free speech but there is still a remnant of a barrier slowly subsiding. The Sun-dial of the Copernican astronomy is correct as to the periods of sun, moon and planets, but the hands upon the dial are enormously exaggerated in length. It will be observed that sun hand 92,000,000 and moon 240,000 could be reduced 4,000 fold without affecting the mechanism in periods, provided magnitudes are re- duced correspondingly. A more extended knowledge of the laws of refraction of light will harmonize the New Astronomy with the Old and remove the incongruities attaching to the Copernican system. ' Bl APPENDIX Since the poibllcation of this book, the lunar cycle, moon'a Inequalities and Mars periods have all been achieved niathematically ; and gi-eater yet, we have succeeded in locating the moun- tains that are restponsible for the stars forming the Dipper, and that, too, where they were never stispected to exist. For Lunar Cycle we take the Synodic Moon 29 52 days i + .49x2=15.74xl3-Ml = 18.6 years. For Lunar unequalities we take Nodical Moon 27.25-r8 which is the same as completing thequHdrants=3.40 +49+354.25^13=27.54 anomolistic re- volutions. Half = 1.70 -.49+354.25+18=27 34, Tropical revolutions. Half=.85+, 49+354.25+13=27.35, Si- derial revolutions. -.49+354,25+13=27.21 Nodical rero- lutions. 8.40 is the monthly libration, .49 is the daily libi tion alternately + and - . We can now see that Moon's parallax is a response to the Earth's libration, the Earth's monthly movements are spiral like the Moon's. For planet Mars we take yearly revo- lution = 354.25-11 X2+. 50=687 - pre- cession of equinox Siderial. 854.25+13+12+11x2-. 59=780- pre- cession of equr.nox Synodic. What is said on page 35 as to stars being oom^panlons of the Ea:.th appears paradoxical, but Investigation will prove it beyond a doubt. Inscriutable as these phenomena have hitherto been, it can now be inoontestably established in tl^e foUov^ing manner: Place mountains upon a small globe relatively to those of the Rocky Mountains. From Mt. St. Ellas, Alaska, to Mt. Whitney in Call- fornla. Prom Mt. St. Ellas draw* a line to Mt. Brown about 20 degrees, continuing one and one half degrees to Mt. Hooker. These mountains are In British Columbia near the source of the Saskatchewan River. Prornl Mt. Hooker to Mt. Baker, Washington, near inteniational bound- ary, from Mt. Baker to Mt. Ollralms, op- posite Puget Sound, from thence to Mt. Hood, Shasta and Whitney complet- ing the handle of the dlppscr. Other mountains contiguous prove those named to comipose the constella- tion of Ursa Mager. Near St. Ell£us oh the so'ith Is Mt. Pair Weather; about four degrees west are two cones, ,th€se