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Gravity motion
In previous issues of F.E.N. we have utterly destroyed the potency of five of the most popular so-called proofs that the earth is a whirling globe. Wa will now again discuss the theory of gravity and earth motion. In order that one may grasp the full meaning of the term "whirling globe", let us recount the figures. According to Elements of Astronomy the earth is travelling through space at the rate of 66,600 miles an hour in one direction (orbital motion) and according to Astronomy to Elements of Astronomy, the earth count the figures, According to Elements of Astronomy, the earth is traveling through space at the rate of 66,600 miles an bour
in one direction (orbital motion) and according to Astronomy for Everybody, the entire solar system is flying towards the constellation Lyra at the rate of 36,000 miles an bour entrely independent of orbital motion; then add to this 1,000 miles, an hour diurnal motion; plus the wobbling motion known as the precessional movement (See Scientific American, Sept. 1929, pp 204), all of which motions make a total speed of more than 11,716 miles a minute at which
we are supposed to be travelling through space.
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No sane person not deluded by special training, but possesed of ordinary power of perception; "could be induced to seriously entertain such a prepostcrous notion. Many attempts have been made to prove the earth's motion, and every singled experiment made for this purpose has proved exactly the opposite thing. that the earth is at rest and positively stable. If there were any real proof of the earth's motion everyone would know of it, for the fact would be heralded far and wide. There is no such proof.
We have many letters from wriearth to be a globe because the law ters who state that they believe the of gravity proves it. We have given above a brief stament of the earth motion necessary to support the socalled law of gravity. Since this necessary motion is entirely lacking, we will pass to the next phase of the question-attraction. We will show what grotesque assumptions are necessary to support the theory of attrac tion. Newton himself did not believe that the so-called force of graxity could influence remote bodies, from
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