L atest P ro o fs th e E a r th a n d S e a is N ot a W h irlin g G lobe S eries.

lens in straight lines and fall on the retina at the back of theeyeball, where the arrow will be inverted as at E.
For short distances light travels in straight lines, but forvery long distances of thousands of miles it travels in great
curves. When these facts are properly appreciated it will beseen that the eye cannot stretch out further in one direction
than another. In fact the eye does not “ stretch o u t” at a l l ;it is light which comes into the eye. Strictly speaking wenever see anything outside the eye, all vision is within theeye or optic nerve ; and we learn from our other senses toassociate distance with the various objects we see.

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EcjualE v e r y Direcbioi^.

But even after much experience these distances are often
deceptive. For instance, mountains look much nearer before
rain than after it. W hen we have digested these facts weshall see the absurdity of thinking that the sun and stars aremany millions of miles away from the earth.
No architect makes a light or a fireplace a million times
greater than the house he wants to light up and warm, andthe Creator was too good an architect to make such a blunder !
The sun and moon and stars were made to light and warm
this, the only w orld; and no other world has ever been
discovered by astronomers.
•W here’er a man’s horizon be,
N ot one yard further can he see.
Man’s eye-formed tent is God’s provision,
To fi'ame and circle all his vision.
In all directions he can see,
H is eye-line’s length the same will be.
The horizontal line of sightIs equal to its length upright:
That is, straight on before his eye
Is ju st the same up vertically.
Controlled by certain limits, too^
The telescope extends the v ie w :And its extended line of gaze
Is equal in its length all ways.
All mortal things have lim it scopes,
Including man-made telescopes.
B u t globites think their eyes can traceA hundred million miles in “ sp a ce :”That is, when looking towards the sun.
They say the stars are further on.
Some stars they see are—so they say—
F ive hundred million m iles away.
B ut the Creator of the sky
Created, too, the human e y e :So, doubtless, ’tis a wise decision
That man is limited in vision.
The one who said “ Thou shalt not die ’
Deceived man also re his eye !
B ut each man’s dome formed by his eye
Holds all he sees of earth or sky.

N o, 1 .

ByZETEO(Lady Blount, F.R.S.L., F.N.B.A., F.S.A ., etc.K

ELESCOPE, Worthing P ie r .

F e in t e dandP u b l is h e dbytheA t jth o k .

------------- N.B. -------------Don’t forget to get No. 2 of this Series,
Subsequent Fortnightly Numbers, forming aComplete Work.
TELESCOPE

SIGHT

LIMITATIONS.
EQUAL IN E V ERY DIRECTION.

In January, 19i3, I wrote on the above subject to a m ost notable firm ofopticians, and on the 23rd of the same m onth I received their reply.
I asked the firm if it could supply me w ith a telescope which would
enable m e to view from London to Brighton, and I agreed to place theinstrum ent as high above the earth as would be necessary.
In the reply I received it was stated that it was “ impossible to state
whether Brighton could be seen from London.” I also suggested that “ ofcourse, w hatever distance can be seen horizontally, under equal atmosphericconditions, would be the same vertically, as the telescope’s power, like that of
the human eye, could not be ‘ stretched ’ beyond its lim its.”
B u t to this I received no answer. Therefore I wrote again, and put thesame question more plainly, and quite apart from m y letter I wrote thequeries on a separate page.
In reply, the firm ’s representative sa id ; “ The questions you asked arevery diffioult to answer. Briefly, they (the firm) would reply as follows‘ Provided there is no obstruction there is no lim it to the range of thetelescope (vertically), that is to say that, w ith clear atmosphere the sun,moon, and stars can be viewed perfectly.’ ”
This, of course, was all that they could say, because most telescopemakers believe the false tenets of astronomy, and im agine either that hrmiansight is lim itless, or that vision, w ith the aid of their human constructions
called telescopes would be lim itless in a vertica l direction.
They think that the sun, moon, and stars are m oving with the earth-andsea-globe, which they im agine is also a star, and all m oving at infinite
distances somewhere in infinite space, and they think that m en can gaze at
those distant objects through the telescope, vertically, weather perm itting!
B u t that telescopes cannot help us to perform such m iracles horizontally^
the optician was compelled to admit. And even w ith the aid of a highposition the longest distance that can be seen w ith the naked eye, he was,forced to own that he could not guarantee that the telescope’s power wouldextend the range of vision from London to Brighton, a distance of some
fifty miles.
But he stated that, “ under favourable conditions, the most powerfultelescopes should carry a distance of fifty to sixty m iles,” i.e., horizontally.

'J 'H EBy ZETEO(Lady Blount, F.R.S.L., F.N.B.A., F.S.A., etc.).

TELESCOPE,Scientists, D.D.'s, and School Teachcrs, fortheir appreciation o f the facts set fo rth in

WORTHING PIER.

A hundred million miles and more
Man’s range of sight can’t be,
Yet all are taught, from shore to shore,
Much further they can see.
Unlimited man’s sight is not,None of his senses are,But theory—science men forgot
They could not see so far.

W R I T E R B E G S TO T H A N K
the Public, hichcding mimbers o f

this Pamphlet.

LIMITATIONSHUMAN SIGHT is limited, and equal in every direction
when there are equal conditions and possibilities.

Most people would agree to this proposition at first sight,
but few think of the results of the application of the principle.
Atmospheric differences and variations in different directions

go. B ut his eye can only command sight-grasp of a^ew milesof circuitous space in breadth or height.

cause tiie sight to be curtailed or cut short of its full length ofview.
Soraetimes these differences obtain in one direction
and sometimes in another, and local differences are innumer­
able as the stars. But although the possibilities of humansight are equal both vertically and horizontally, and also
betwixt these two at every point, it is usually, more or less,cut short, horizontally rather than vertically. When there
are no solid obstructions, such as buildings, hills, trees, etc.,
even then smoke, vapours, mists, etc., refract the light.

The heavens sink down to his horizon, and consequently
the heavenly lights in motion appear in a dome as thoughmoving above his head. And wherever the field of motion of
the heavenly lights may be—whether far or near above—
they are reflected down through the atmosphere to eachhuman eye, and they appear within the eye’s own bounds
according to their located positions on the earth or sea.

Humidities in the air, as well as the eye’s nearness to theearth, all prevent the full possibilities of sight horizontally.

The images of the sun, moon, and wandering stars passthrough the eye-formed “ t e n t ” according to their regularcourses. That the projected image of the sun comes throughthe atmosphere into the horizon of every mortal’s limited areaand very near above the earth is an evident fact—as is shownin the following diagrams.*

Looking vertically, sometimes clouds and mists preclude
the fully extended reach of sight quite as effectually as do
solid sight-deterrents on the earth in the shape of bricks andmortar, etc.
Even when the human eye is looking over the open sea orover a plane its full range is rarely reached.
The eye is always in the centre of its own visual bounds,
the full extent of which it can only see under favourable
conditions, when all obstacles or obstructing causes are clearedaway.
The heavens are pictured down to meet the human eye,and no man can possibly see beyond his eyesight’s range
within his limited area. This perspectively appears enclosed
by circular bounds extended as far as the individual’s eyepower can command on all sides. Each human eye is enclosed
as in a tent by the limitations of its own formed canopy.
In every position on earth or on sea a man is under thesame conditions. His eye-formed canopy or “ te n t” is ever
over him, and if he moves a few yards, or a hundred miles, hecan never extend the limits of his own bounds determined byhis own eye and the limitations of light. The laws controllingthese conditions are fixed.
Every m an’s eye-formed bounds moves along with him
bodily, new canopies ever forming round him wherever he may

It is shown that the image seen of the sun within theeye-formed tent or canopy of every person on earth often
appears within two or three miles above the earth, or thespectator’s eye. I t was so when the drawing of Diagram I I I 'was made.

1D ia g r a mI.

March 21st.
6 a.m.

8 a.m.

10 a.m.

12 noon.

2 p.m.

1 p.m.

6 p.m.

A ........ i,“Sunrise.

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I Sunset.

(a) Position of observer.

The sun “ rises” perspectively into the horizon of theeastern atmosphere limits of each m an’s eye-formed bounds,or tent, gradually rising higher and higher until noon, when itreaches its zenith, or central point of vision.
* See “ The Motions of Light,” “ Kefraction and Reflection,”
etc., etc., by the same author.

These facts may be made clearer by the following diagram.
D ia g e a mII.

In the same way the Sun Light is focussed in theatmosphere, and that which we see is a focussed image borneby sun-rays in the air in harmony with the eye’s nature.
This diagram was taken from observation for the author
by a scientist.
S was the focussed image of the sun shining through theclouds, and its rays diverged to the right towards some trees
as at B, and to the left to a distant church.
These rays made an angle of about 45° with the earth,and the distance from A to B was four to five miles. Drop a
perpendicular from S to 0, then the distance over B. a little
over two miles, equals the altitude of S—the focussed
image of the sun. If we were to rise higher in the air in aballoon the focussed image of the sun would rise higher withus, up to a certain height, just as when we approach arainbow, its arch recedes from us as we approach it.
D ia g e a mIV.

In the above diagram let A represent the sun, B a magni­
fying glass.
Those rays which fall vertically on the glass B pass
and are converged at the point C. This experiment can betried any day when there is sunshine, and if the converging
rays are focussed on a piece of paper as at C the focussed
image of the sun will be seen, and it will set fire to the paper.
D ia g e a m

F igIII.

This diagram roughly represents a sectional elevation ofthe human eye. A may represent the aqueous humour; B
the crystalline lens which answers to the glass which con­verges the rays of lig h t; 0 represents the eyeball filled withwhat is called the vitreous humour.

nAll these, with the cornea in front of the eye, are trans­parent, and they allow the light to go through the pupil of theeye to the membranous lining of the eye-ball called the retina.
If an arrow be placed before the eye as at D, the rays oflight will pass from it through the pupil and the crystalline

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