The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-03
TRAUSER'S AWFUL PROPHESY
from the New York Mercury,l

[From the New York Mercury]
In no branch Of science has there been
greater progress than astronomy. and the
marvcls Of the universe have almost
ceased to be regarded as mysteries. But
no sooner has the modern mind become
familiar vith:the accepted theory of the
solar system THAT part Of the universe
which more particularly interests us
dwcllers OH this mundane sphere), that of
Copernicus. then along comes a learned
astronomer, who deliberately proceeds TO
ck-metaphorically speaking our
preconceiyed ideas on the subject into a
cooked hat, and calls upon us to receive
in their stead an entirely new theory, for.
ti(ying his demand with the most plausi.
bic arguments. This savanr is Professor
p. E. Trauser, NJ. D. of New Orleans.
10 commence with, he denounces the Co.
pernican system as huge fraud. This
system. it may be remarked, has for its
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 planet, contending also that
Newtons .discovery of gravitalion fails to
account for Astronomical phenomena.
There is, says Yrauser, in the sun and
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 extinguishcd suddenly.
the rotary movement Of the earth around
It's axis would diminish gradually, until it
stopped entirely. without causing any
damage upon its surface; and if subse.
quently the sun recovered its power Of
emitting light, the earth would resume
Immediately It's 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 a 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
for the earth is 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. Tie
point around which the earth revolves is
not fixed. 1t describes small circle
around the planetary center in period
of twcnty.fo thousand years. This
number has been reduced from formula
that the experimental observations, with
the help Of time, has made known to an
tiquity.
Owing to the place which the center of
the earth's orbit occupies, the arcs de-
scribed by our planet, in the four seasons,
are unequal. The arc which it travels
over in the spring (oi 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 nincty.two days
and fraction, the summer Of ninety
three days and a traction, and the winter
lightweight days and fraction.
II at the vernal equinox the sun had
covered star of the eclipt,c, The star
would seventy'two years liter, be
found OH the sane day one degree to the
eastward. This phenomenon is called
improperly by the modern astronomers
the procession Of the cqinoxes. But it is
not. as they say, movement Of the equi-
noct'al points from east to west. The
erroneous conclusions that they have
drawn do not proceed, as they believe it,
from the movement of the equinoxes,
which never change their place for anoth.
err since they are immucable. Tha, phe-
nomenon is caused by the anticipation of
the terrestrial meridian over the sun, at
each Of theirereturns to the same equinox.
The sun delays, each year, in etecting
its returns to the equinox.
fThe STAR which we have Seen as having
advanced one degree to the eastward, is
one Of the consequences of The retrograda-
ton Of the sun, which carries this luuin-
airy 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-
doubtable by the magnitude of the dis.