SEASONS

ZETETIC COSMOGONY:
OR
Conclusive Evidence
THAT THE WORLD IS NOT A
ROTATING—REVOLVING—GLOBE,
BUT
A STATIONARY PLANE CIRCLE.
By Thomas Winship
1899

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(Post 37/47)

SEASONS.

R. Russell tells us in his "Wonders of the Sun, Moon, and Stars," pages 16 and 17, that:

"The nearer the sun gets to the Pole Star the earlier it rises, the higher it reaches at noon, and the later it sets; and the further it gets from the Pole Star the later it rises, the lower it is at noon, and the earlier it sets. This apparently independent motion of the sun therefore, seems to account for longer and shorter days and the whole phenomena of the seasons; but why the sun lags as described, or why it moves northerly and southerly at alternate periods, there is no apparent evidence."

On the supposition that the world is a globe rotating against the sun, and revolving round that luminary, it is impossible to account for what Mr. Russell calls the lagging movement of the sun. But on a flat surface like the world is known to be, there is no assumption needed to account for it. As I have shown, the earth is a stretched-out structure, which diverges from the central north in all directions towards the south. The equator, being midway between the north centre and the southern circumference, divides the course of the sun into north and south declination. The longest circle round the world which the sun makes, is when it has reached its greatest southern declination. Gradually going northwards the circle is contracted. In about three months after the southern extremity of its path has been reached, the sun makes a circle round the equator. Still pursuing a northerly course as it goes round and above the world, in another three months the greatest northern declination is reached, when the sun again begins to go towards the south. In north latitudes, when the sun is going north, it rises earlier each day, is higher at noon and sets later; while in southern latitudes at the same time, the sun as a matter of course rises later, reaches a lesser altitude at noon and sets earlier. In northern latitudes during the southern summer, say from September to December, the sun rises later each day, is lower at noon and sets earlier; while in the south he rises earlier, reaches a higher altitude at noon, and sets later each day. This movement round the earth daily is the cause of the alternations of day and night; while his northerly and southerly courses produce the seasons. When the sun is south of the equator it is summer in the south and winter in the north; and vice versa. The fact of the alternation of the seasons flatly contradicts the Newtonian delusion that the earth revolves in an orbit round the sun. It is said that summer is caused by the earth being nearest the sun, and winter by its being farthest from the sun. But if the reader will follow the argument in any text book he will see that according to the theory, when the earth is nearest the sun there must be summer in both northern and southern latitudes; and in like manner when it is farthest from the sun, it must be winter all over the earth at the same time, because the whole of the globe-earth would then be farthest from the sun!!! In short, it is impossible to account for the recurrence of the seasons on the assumption that the earth is globular and that it revolves in an orbit round the sun.

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Explanation of seasons in globe model makes no sense!!! Winter and summer would occur on the entire globe. You can't get alternating seasons between hemispheres.