SUN DIAMETER

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 34/47)

SUN DIAMETER.

When we "read up" current science on the size of the sun, we shall find it as ridiculous and as far from the truth as the suns distance has been shown to be.


Sir Robert Ball, in his "Story of the Heavens," page 26, says that:

"The diameter of the orb of day . . . . is 865,000 miles."

This is enlarged upon by R. Russell, who tells us that:

"The sun's diameter is 882,000 miles."

A. Giberne, in "Sun, Moon, and Stars," considerably lessens the value of the figures, for she tells us that:

"The diameter of the sun is no less than 850,000 miles."

Then G. F. Chambers, in his "Story of the Solar System," comes to the rescue with the true diameter and says:

"The TRUE diameter of the sun is 866,000 miles."

Let the reader observe that the differences of the sun's diameter, as given to us by professionals is no less than 32,000 miles, and let him decide as to which diameter he prefers.

The sun is always somewhere between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, a distance admitted to be less than 3,000 miles; how then can the sun if it be so many thousand miles in diameter, squeeze itself into a space of about 3,000 miles only? How can a locomotive seven feet wide run on a two feet gauge of rails? Can a camel ride on the back of a mouse, or a whale rush down the throat of a herring?

These tall figures of the sun's supposed diameter must be relegated to oblivion with as scant courtesy and as little ceremony as the sun's distance had to be thrown aside. Fact compels us to get rid of these absurd notions and to spread abroad the truth concerning them. What then is the diameter of the orb of day? Thirty-two miles, I reply. How is that obtained? By the same practical and non-theoretical manner as his distance was obtained. If the navigator neglects to apply the sun's semi-diameter to his observation at sea, he is 16 nautical miles (nearly) out in calculating the position his ship is in. A minute of arc on the sextant represents a nautical mile, and if the semi-diameter be 16 miles, the diameter is of course 32 miles. And as measured by the sextant, the sun's diameter is 32 minutes of arc, that is 32 nautical miles in diameter. Let him disprove this who can. If ever disproof is attempted, it will be a literary curiosity, well worth framing.

WHY THE SUN DOES NOT CHANGE SIZE AND SOMETIMES

GETS BIGGER THE CLOSER TO THE HORIZON IT GETS