Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-11-19
From the National Intellieenecr

From the National Inelligenecr.
 q, .s.,.tvH---it Nas | unuh. in 191I perhaps earear and t might have been after, in Sl2 or l3, addressed 10 the Editors of the National lntegencer' some remarks, which were published after which gave no farther publicity to any of my views until 1e20 or '22 l about this time recei. ed q letter from Doctor Potter, of Baltimore in which he intimated to me that he had been informed that Sir Richard Philips had advanced views similar to those ol mine on the subject of Pressure l had in the early part ofmy life read Ferguson's Astronomy with some attention. read also the views of Dr Wilson of Glasgow on the progressive motion of the sun which he attempted to prove by arguments drawn from the rotaory motion of that body. It appeared to me very evident that if this was the fact, that then all the drawings of the solar system and the views of Sir Isaac Newton, must be incor- rect, and without any foundation in nature. It was impossible, admitting the progressive motion of the for the planets to describe such orbits as he had delIneateG. He had also filled the heavenly spaces with highly elastic natter vastly more active than atmospheric air but there Jeff it, without appropria- ton and without agency, which l considered alto gether unphosophilal and as the planets did not describe such orbits as he (Newton) had exhibited in his diagrams I then passed from books into the open field of creation in search of that which could l not find in the writings of the Newtonians be- gan with the magnetic phenomena; and applied my views of magnetism to the sum- the planets and their satellites soon found that the whole ofthe plane tary phenomena could be very readily accounted for upon the prlnCiples lau lalu uOWn TOT my guluei | and that the true nature of the magnetic phenome- na had been misunderstood and, consequently mis- | applied. took up the subject where Dr Wilson left it and would be glad to see views may now advance fairly investigated in the columns of your paper. Srnth is my object; and more particularly us go for the entire subversion of the Newtonian l physical system.
 | If Sir Richard Philips has pursued the same course, would now wish to see his writings. If the | m arlxa in of the l2th inst. will be good to send me, by mail, if in pamphlet form, Sir Richards publica- ton, will return it by the Hon. William Armstrong
 in December next. 1 do not wish gentlemen, to crowd your paper with any useless matter and shall | therefore conine myself to plain matters of fact
 leaving out of view for the present the elastic ma chlnery of creation. Practical astronomy Is one thing, and physical astronomy IS another; but Sir Isaac Newton and others have so blended the wo together, as to render it somewhat difficult to sepa- rate them; and the mathematician has for a century or more supposed he was demonstrating the truth of Ncwtons physical system but he, so far from demon strating its truth was in every calculation he made, demonstrating it's errors. Newton gives to Mercury velocity of 900 miles an hour and to the Bath 65,OOO miles in the same time. The errol the mathe- matician has demonstrated perhaps a thousand times, yet he seems not to have known it. The motions of the planets both progressive and revolutionary, are all equa and in relation to the orbit of the sun they described semicirces only and these circles are concave to the mass point round which the sun
 is progressing, the circles orbits of Jupiter's moons to the san. have often intima. ted to my friends here that would pursue the sub- ject of my inquiries independently and would get the leading principles of my theory into print, as the competitor of this Sir Richard Philips in consequence of the intimaton given to me by Dr Potter. Indeed, I have consulted no work on the subject of astronomy for the last fifteen years except Rees' and the Edinburgh Encyclopedias.
 | But having formed my system would like to see what Sir Richard has also done Woodward's work on the substance of the sun, l have read have said, that if there had been no matter in state of elasticity, there never could have been any mo-
 ton of any matter. No planet in creation can move tsef-no vessel in the animated body can fill itself But let us first settle the question the true na- ue of the circles described by the planets round the sum- their distances and velocity and exhibit the true dasis of the science of the practical astronomer | Then the elastic machinery, the instruments of mo- ton, will come more crediDy into view. When the practical astronomer discovers that the physical sys tenn of Newton IS entirely useless to him, he will soon divest himself of his prejudces in it's favor When he discovers that the planets do not describe such circles are drawn by the Newtonians, and that their motions are all equal; he will also disco yer that gravltatlon attraction and projection, had no existence, except in the imaginations of Hooke Newton, and few others, when applied to the sun and planets, and to the planets and their satellites | Your obedient servant, R. NEWMAN. | Romney, Va. Oct. 1881.