SURVEYING

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 39/47)

SURVEYING.

In Robinson's "New Navigation and Surveying," page 25, it is stated:

"The spirit-level . . . . . is used to determine a horizontal line. A horizontal line is at right angles to the vertical. It is a level line."

And on page 33 the following occurs:

"To adjust a theodolite measure very carefully the distance between two stations, and set the instrument half way between them. Now bring the level near to one of the stations, level it carefully and sight the rod. Note the number on the rod, say 6 feet, and have the rod man go to the other station and place his target on the rod, just 6 feet. When the telescope is turned upon it the horizontal spider line ought to just coincide with the target, and will if the instrument is level or in perfect adjustment."

This proves that the whole of the line from the extremities at either side of the instrument, passing through the telescope is a level or straight line, impossible on a globe. And the further fact that in surveying, no allowance is made for the supposed curvature of the earth, demonstrates that the earth is a plane. The surveyor is, in many cases, deluded by the speculations of the learned. They tell him that because he takes his sights midway between two stations, the allowance for curvature is made. But we have shown from a text-book that the line is a level or straight line, so that the learned are all wrong. And if a section of a globe be drawn and the instrument shown at various equal distances, to get a continuous straight line the instrument would have to be taken up off the globe into space.

That in all surveys no allowance is made for curvature, which would be a necessity on a globe; that a horizontal line is in every case the datum line, the same line being continuous throughout the whole length of the work; and that the theodolite cuts a line at equal altitudes on either side of it, which altitude is the same as that of the instrument, clearly proves, to those who will accept proof when it is furnished, that the world is a plane and not a globe.