﻿CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 

 Sir Richard Phillips, and Newton's " execrable superstitions" ... Further Examina- 

 tion of Sir John Herschel's celebrated Treatise ... The Will and the Way ... What does 

 Sir John mean ? ... The Beggar and the King ..." False and Fanciful Theories" Illus- 

 trated.. .Bradley's Geometry ... The "invisible" and the "imaginary" ... Land is in the 

 Water...What St. Peter says is scientifically correct... Sir John's Conclusion with a New 

 Face upon it...' What next, and next ?...' Exeter Hall Lecture' on Balloon Experiments 

 ...Sir John Herschel and his Spherical Slice ... A little bit of Good Management ... The 



Hay-makers on the Coast of France Sir John and his " data" The Complicated 



Problem.. .Sir John and his Arithmetic... His ''round" numbers ... Sir John's "rough" 

 result!. ..The Book of Nature and its Teachings... The Shilling Magazine, — &c. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Professor Airy's Six Lectures on Astronomy to Working men.. .The Earth's motion 

 ../'Do you believe it?" ...Professor Airy's "grounds for the belief."... Likelihood and 



Probability ' So much the Worse for the Facts !' Regularity and Punctuality... 



" Seeming" to Move, and Moving " Sensibly. "...A " Strong Proof." ... ' If the stars be 

 fixed, we move!' ... The Grand FACT, on Professor Airy's own authority... "Why do 

 NOT we turn?". ..Perspective.. ."Something Curved!"... How it is that Ships Circum- 

 navigate the Earth.. .A CHALLENGE for Professor Airy.. .The Zenith Sector The 



way in which it is said to be used, a Delusion or a Fallacy The Leak in the Ship of 



the Astronomer Royal. ..Absolute and Relative Position... The Sinking of the Ship! 



CHAPTER VII. 

 Anticipation ... How far distant is "excessively" distant ? ... The Thin End of the 

 Wedge ! ... One Hundred and Ninety Millions of Miles in Six Months ... The Telescope 

 and the Plumb-line once more ... " Turnip -shaped" Predictions, and " Turnip-shaped" 

 Verifications... The Travellers' Debate... Spherical and Spheroidal... A Straight Line, the 

 Astronomers' Arc ! ... How we travel East or West, North or South ... Professor Airy's 

 Why and Because... The Pedestrian... The Rule of Three Question ... Only a Notion !... 

 Driving Astronomers helter-skelter... " Parallax."... Sundry Objections ...'Tumbling 

 Over!'... The Balloon, and the Lads of the Village... The Pendulum Experiment ... Mr. 

 Bird's Suggestion... Mr. Dunkin... Recapitulation... Where are we now?... The Ocean 

 TRUTH. ..Dr. Dick's Chain Thrown Overboard. ..Determination. ..Upward! Onward!... 

 Reason's Flaunting Flag ... Common Sense. ... End of Chapter VII. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 A Fact stated by Professor Airy! ... From East to West, or from West to East ? ... 



Travelling in two opposite directions at one time! Two sorts of 'Appearances'... 



Miserable Confusion ... The apparent Annual Motion of the Sun... It is "necessary to 

 have" the Stars fixed !... What Theory demands, Theory gets ... The Spoiled Child ... A 

 Review of Facts... Observations of the Heavenly Bodies... The Stars Travel Faster than 

 the Sun ... Theoretically and Really... Debtor and Creditor... " Either supposition will 

 do!"... No inconsistency in 'supposing' anything... The highest pitch of Controversy... 

 Earth, a Moon !... Weighing the Earth... Light ... Darkness ... Speculation ... Beautiful, 

 Charming, "Delightful Uncertainty!" ... The Zetetic Philosophy... A Chain of Facts! 

 ...Theoretical Astronomy Examined andExposed..."HeavenourHome."...In Opposite 

 Directions ...The Christian's Penny Magazine.. .End of Theoretical Astronomy. 



