“ 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. Level railways prove a level world, to the utter confusion of the globular school of impractical men with high salaries and little brains. In projecting railways, the world is acknowledged to be a plane, and if it were a globe the rules of projection have yet to be discovered. “ It is well known that in the Argentine Republic and other parts of South America, there are railways thousands of miles long without curve or gradient. On one occasion he surveyed over one thousand miles of railway which was a perfect straight line all the way.
Hughes, chief officer of the steamer ‘City of Lincoln.’ This gentleman told me he had projected thousands of miles of level railway in South America, and never heard of any allowance for curvature being made. “ One hundred and eighteen miles of LEVEL railway, and yet the surface on which it is projected a globe? Impossible. To support the globe theory, the gentlemen of the observatories should call upon the surveyor to prove that he allows the necessary amount for ‘curvature.’ But this is what the learned men dare not do, as it is well-known that the allowance for the supposed curvature is never made. That the datum line for the railway projections is always a horizontal line, proves that the general configuration of the world is horizontal. “ In projecting railways on a globe, the datum line would be the arc of a circle corresponding to the latitude of the place. It is not the practice in laying out Public Works to make allowances for the curvature of the earth." ” “ Let those who believe it is the practice for surveyors to make allowance for ‘curvature’ ponder over the following from the Manchester Ship Canal Company (Earth Review, October, 1893) "It is customary in Railway and Canal constructions for all levels to be referred to a datum which is nominally horizontal and is so shown on all sections. Adding the station’s actual height (240 feet) to its theoretical inclination (5,400 feet) gives 5,640 feet as the rail’s necessary height on a globe-Earth, more than a thousand feet taller than Ben Nevis, the tallest mountain in Great Britain! ”
Zetetic astronomy 8 inches per mile full#
If the world were actually a globe, however, curveting 8 inches per mile squared, the 180 mile stretch of rail would form an arc with the center point at Birmingham raising a full 5,400 feet above London and Liverpool. The railroad’s highest point, midway at Birmingham station, is only 240 feet above sea-level. “ The London and Northwestern Railway forms a straight line 180 miles long between London and Liverpool.
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