The Procession of Planets

106 Pages·1901·4.526 MB·English

by  Franklin H. Heald

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THE
PROCESSION
OF
PLANETS
BY
FRANKLIN H. HEALD
SECOND EDITION
1901
COPYRIGHTED
1901
BY FRANKLIN H. HEALD.
CONTENTS.
APOLOGY.
CHAPTER I. THE FORCES.
NEPTUN BAND
II.
URANUS.
III. SATURN.
IV. JUPITER.
V. ASTEROIDS.
VI. MARS.
VII. EARTH.
VIII. VENUS.
IX. MURCURY.
X. INNER ASTEROIDS
XI. THE SUN.
XII. MOONS.
XIII. COMETS.
XIV. HEAT, LIGHT AND
ELECTRICITY.
XV. THE PROOF.
XIV. CONCLUSION.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
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APOLOGY.
As an excuse for assuming to point out
to my readers, that which has so greatly puz-
zled much wiser men who are especially edu-
cated in the science ofastronomy, and furnished
with all the instruments and mechanism which
can in any way assist them, allow me to plead,
that we may be so close to an object as to be
able to see only the details, while one standing
farther away and not perplexed by these parts
may see at a glance the whole structure, which
has been ercted, unknown to themselves
by these men of particulars.
New theories are the work of vigorous and
healthy imaginations, and are the forerunners
of science and truth; and science would make
but sorry progress if we did not allow our im-
aginations to reach out into the unexplored
darkness. New theories which are wrong, are
very soon pulled to pieces and destroyed by sci-
ence, but if they are correct, facts and figures
already known will sustain them.
We should not be ashamed to abandon a pet
hobby, when it is tried in the crucible of truth
and found wanting, but rather be ashamed to
allow it to cling to us like dead rnoss.
If the new ideas, theories or seeming facts
hereinafter presented to thinking people for the
first time, are wrong, they will be easily demol-
istied and brushed out of the way of truth and
progress; and the sooner the better. What we
want is the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth, and law and order of nature; and
we want none of the chance and changing no-
tions of the jealous aud angry gods.
I am quite well aware of the considerable
amount of orthodoxy in connection with
scientists rnd scientific societies, but if itis nec-
essary to dedicate a book, I most respectfully,
dedicate this little volume to science and invite
scientists to criticise it without mercy, with the
same cruel justice exercised by a camera. If it
cannot stand before criticism it is not true and
we do not want it.
The details of many of the points and facts,
which to me seem to fit so perfectly into this
structure, as to make it a beautiful and simple
truth, have been hurriedly passed over; first be-
cause some of the discoveries I have made are
patentable, and second, because being now a
firm believer in the wireless telegraphy of
thought, I do not care to longer delay the
copyrighting of present discoveries, lest some
more active fellow mortal should anticipate me
and carry my message to Garcia.
In the matters of the magnetic poles and the
three different qualities of heat, i. e., heat, light
and electricity, there is 'much more to be ex-
plained. There is also a large field for young
mathematitions in determining the exact age