The audience listened with the deepest attention, and appeared astonished at the revelations of the lecturer. The nature of these lectures is extraordinary, explaining that the earth is not a globe, but a fixed circular plane-that the sun moves in the firmament-and that, in fact, our present astronomical knowledge is altogether fallacious and inconsistent with natural phenomena.
"ZETETIC ASTRONOMY.-'Parallax' repeated his lectures on this subject (by permission of the High Sheriff of the county) in the Court House here, to large and respectable auditories of our townspeople. The lecturer is not a theorist, and the matter is sufficiently important to claim the attention of the scientific world."- Liverpool Mercury, January 25 th, 1850. The lectures were well attended, and were delivered with great skill, the lecturer proving himself thoroughly acquainted with the subject in all its bearings."- Wilts Independent, January 18 th, 1849. "TROWBRIDGE MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.-On Monday and Tuesday evenings last two lectures were delivered by a gentleman adopting the name of 'Parallax,' to prove modern astronomy unreasonable and contradictory: that the earth is a plane or disc and not a globe, the sun, moon, and stars, self-luminous, &c., &c.
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