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A Questionnaire
As Regards the Modern Geographical Scientific Inferences
In the form of Criticism
(1)
1. What are the rational proofs that the earth is round ?
2. How is it that the earth is flattened at the both the poles-the north and the south ?
How was this determined? Was it determined by going over there ? or by any
other experiment ? 3. How was it determined that the earth is 93,000,000 miles away from the sun ?
4. How was it determined that the speed at which the light travels is about 1,86,000
miles per second ?
5. How did science come to such conclusions as
(i) the stars are very far off; (i) all these stars shine like the sun; (iii) the light of some of these stars has not yet reached the earth; and (iv) there is also a particular star whose light takes 134 years to reach the earth.
What were the experimental processes to come down to the above conclusions ? 6. How does the sun shine ? Why is the moonlight Cool ? Where did it come from ?
What do scientists think about it?
7. It is so said that (i) the earth also shines just as the moon does; (ii) it appears shining
from the other planets also; (iii) its photographs have been published too. How is all this believed to be possible ? What makes the earth shine ?
8. Why does the digit of the moon increase or wax in the bright half and decrease or
wane in the dark one ?
9. How are the seasons of the summer and the winter caused ?
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