The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-12

! she will apparently rise to her own
eight-nothing more. II we stand up
on an eminence, the same law operates
and it is but the law of perspective,
! which causes objects as they approach
/ us to appear to increase in size until
we see them, close to us, the size they
are in fact That there is no other
rise than the one spoken of is plain
! from the fact that no matter how high
we ascend above the level of the sea,
i the horizon rises on and still on as we
rise, so that it is always on a level with
the eve.
eff we take a trip down the Chesa-
peake bay in daytime we may see for
ourselves the utter fallacy of the idea
that when a vessel appears hull down
/ as it is called. it is because the hull is
behind the water Vessels have been
seen, and may often be seen again, pre-
J senting the appearance spoken of and
far-far away-bey ond those vessels,
the level shore line, with it's accom-.
| paniment of tall trees towering up, in
perspective, above the 'hull down
ships.
Now the thing which is called a
proof of the world s roundness and
which is presented to children at school
is that if we stand on the seashore we
may see the ships as they approach US,
absolutely coming up, and as we are
able to see the highest parts first, it is
believed the lower part is behind the
earth s curve. If this were the case
if the lower parts of the ships were
behind hill of water, the size of the
earth indicated by such curve as this
would be so small as only to hold the
people of parish.
! eff / take journey down the Chesa,
peake bay by night we see the light
at Sharp s island for an hour before the
steamer gets to it. We may take up a
position on deck so that the rail of the
vessel will be in a line with the light
and in the line of sight, and we will
find that in the whole journey the light
will not vary in the slightest degree in
it's apparent elevation. But say that a
distance of thirteen miles has been
traversed, the astronomer s theory of
curva ture demand a difference-one
way or the other-in the apparent ele-
walton of the light of 112 feet inches.
AS a matter of fact, there is not diff
ference of 112 hairbreadths.
50 1t is a fact not so well known as it
ought to be, that when a vessel, in sail,
ing away from us, has reached a point
when her hull is lost to our unaided
vision, good telescope will restore that
part of the vessel to our sight. Now,
as telescopes are not made to enable
us to see through hill of water, it is
clear that the hulls are not behind a
hill of water when lost to our unaided
vision.
Newtonian philosophers teach us
that the moon goes around the earth
from West to East. Observation
man s most certain mode of gaining
neutrality-suspicious. us that the moon
never ceases to move in the opposite
! direction-from East to West.
| eff the earth were globe, a small
| model globe would be the best-because
!; the truest-thing for the navigator to
| take to sea with him. But such thing
as that is not known. With such a toy
as a guide the mariner would wreck
his ship.
"The surveyor S plans in relation to
the laying of the first Atlantic tele-
graph cable show that in $50 miles
from Valentia, Ireland, to ST. John, N
F-the surface of the Atlantic ocean is
a level surface.
Professor Carpenter is dead and al
most forgotten, but his creed still lives.
Many persons today believe that Sir
Isaac Newton was crazy and that Cali
leo and Columbus were mistaken, and
their theories are backed up by quota
tions from the Bible, such as the four
corners of the earth, the four winds of
heaven, the four angles, etc.
The under side of the earth having
no sun, they say, is the place of dark,
ness and damnation, reached only
through the bottomIess pit.