The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-11-05
IRA USERS AWFUL PROPHESY.
From the New York Aercury.1

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(From the New York Mercury.1
In no branch of science has there been
greater progress than astronomy, and the
marvels Of the universe have almost
ceased to be regarded as mysteries. But
no sooner has the modern mind become
familiar with the accepted theory of the
selar system THAT part Of the universe
which more particularly interests us
dwellers OH this mundane sphere), that of
Copcrnicus, then along comes learned
astronomer. who deliberately proceeds to
ENTHUSIASTICALLY speaking--all our
preconceived ideas on the subject into a
cooked hat, and calls upon US to receive
in their stead an entirely new theory, for
tifying his demand with the most pausi-
Die arguments. This savant is Professor
P. E. Trauser, NJ. D, Of New Orleans.
To commence with, he denounces the Co.
pernican system IS a huge fraud. This
system, it may be remarked, has for it's
basis the revolution of the earth and
other planets around the sun. He also
denies Kepler's laws and the elliptical or
bits Of the pl'net, contending also that
NEWTON! discovery Of gravitation fails to
account for astronomical phenomena.
There is, says Trauser, in the sun nd
in the planets neither centripetal nor
centrifugal forces. The stars or suns, in
advancing from west to east, cause our
sun. the earth, and all the planetary bod.
les to advance in the same direction. Our
globe has no need of any primitive i'm.
pulse in order to be set in motion. If the
sun came to be extinguished suddenly,
the rotary movement Of the earth around
its axis would diminish gradually, until it
stopped entirely, without cau+lng any
damage upon its surface; and if subse.
quently the sun recovered its power of
emitting light, the earth would resume
Immediately Its normal movement slowly
and progressively. Not only modern as.
tronomy is unable to reconcile the orbits
OF to-day with those Of past times. but
even it does not know the length Of our
civil year. Its almanacs continue to give
it the same length, although it augments
by each revolution by number OF Sec
onds, proportional to that by which the
orbit OF the earth increases. Never is
there year Of duration equal to that of
the one preceding or following it.
Instead Of the earth moving around the
sun, as universally believed, it does moth
ing of the kind. On the contrary, our
planet revolves around fixed centre in
the heavens. The sun also moves around
this centre, but outside the orbit
Of the earth. To speak more
correctly. however, the fixed point
Tor the earth is a little cast Of
the center Of the point of the other plan
cts revolutions, and this difference &C.
counts for the change of seasons, and
many ether natural phenomena. These
orbits are round and not elliptical. Tae
point around which the earth revolves is
not fixed. It describes a small circle
around the planetary center in a period
OF twcnty'four thousand years. This
number has been reduced from formula
that the experimental observations, with
the help Of time, has mace known to an.
tiquity.
Owing to the place which the center of
the earth's orbit occupies, the arcs dc.
scribed by our planet, in the four seasons,
are unequal. The arc which it travels
over in the spring (of the Northern Hem
isphere) is less than the arc that it trav-
eled in the summer, and larger than the
arc it follows in the autumn; the arc
which it describes in the winter is the
smallest Of all. This is the reason why
our spring is not as long as summer, and
longer than autumn, and why winter is
the shortest Of all our seasons; the
spring being composed Of ninety.two DAYS
and fraction, the summer Of ninety
three days and fraction, and the winter
of Lightweight days and fraction.
If at the vernal equinox the sun had
covered star of tho ecliptic, the star
would. seventy-two years later, be
found on the same day one degree to the
This phenomenon is called
improperly by the modern astronomers
the procession of the eqinoxcs. But it is
not, as they say, movement Of the equi.
noctiat points from east to west. The !
erroneous conclusions that they have
drawn do not proceed, as they believe it,
from the movement Of the equinoxcs,
which never change their place for anoth.
er since they are immutable. Tha, phe.
nomenon is caused by the anticipation of |
the terrestrial meridian over the sun, at |
zach Of their returns to the same equinox. |
The sun delays, each year, in effecting |
its returns to the equinox.
The star which We have seen as having
advanced one degree to the eastward, is |
onc Of the consequences of the retrograda. |
ton Of the sun, which carries this lumin- |
Try more and more to the westward |
against the order Of the zodiacal signs.
This retrogradation, in accommodating, with
The number Of years, will become re.
by the magnitude Of the dis.
lstrous phenomena that it has caused
md will cause again. 1t is to that con.
ti,'ual retrogradation that we must refer
The antique devastation Of the earth, by
! burning heat, concluded by an immense
;ataclysm, which wasted The earth. This
formidable past allows no doubt about
he return Of similar phenomena, since
he cause which brings them perscveres
n its action.
About five thousand three hundred
Ind thirty -four years ago the sun and |
The earth met them on the same side of |
he heavens (at 0 degree Of Aries, vcrnal
.quinox), without ceasing to circulate
:ach one in it's own orbit. Tho sun in.
at the terrestrial equator, the
irst meridian of the secular period, in
which We are. This proximity Of the
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