A Challenge to the JOHNS HOPKINS University ONE HUNDRED PROOFS THAT THE EARTH IS NOT A GLOBE. Dedicated to RICHARD A. PROCTOR, Esq. "The Greatest Astronomer of the Age." By WM. CARPENTER, Referee for John Hampden, Esq., in the Celebrated Scientific Wager, in 1870; Author of 'Common Sense' on Astronomy, (London, 1866;) Proctor's Planet Earth; Wallace's Wonderful Water; The Delusion of the Day, &c., &c. "UPRIGHT, DOWNRIGHT, STRAIGHTFORWARD." BALTIMORE: Printed and Published by the Author, No. 71 Chew Street 1885. TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. Five Copies, Postage Paid, for One Dollar. 5th Edition: 6th Thousand. INDEX. 1 The aeronaut sees for himself. 2 Standing water level. 3 Surveyors' "allowance." 4 Flow of Rivers--the Nile. 5 Lighthouses--Cape Hatteras. 6 The sea-shore.--"Coming up." 7 A trip down Chesapeake Bay. 8 The model globe useless. 9 The sailor's level charts. 10 The mariners' compass. 11 The southern circumference. 12 Circumnavigation of the Earth. 13 Meridians are straight lines. 14 Parallels of latitude--circles. 15 Sailing down and underneath. 16 Distance round the South. 17 Levelness required by man. 18 The "level" of the astronomers. 19 Half the globe is cut off, now! 20 No "up" or "down" in nature? 21 The "spherical lodestone." 22 No falsehoods wanted! 23 No proof of "rotundity." 24 A "most complete" failure. 25 The first Atlantic Cable. 26 Earth's "curvature." 27 Which end goes down? 28 A "hill of water." 29 Characteristics of a globe. 30 Horizon--level with the eye. 31 Much too small a globe. 32 Vanishing point of objects. 33 We are not "fastened on." 34 Our "antipodes."--a delusion. 35 Horizon a level line. 36 Chesapeake Bay by night. 37 Six months day and night. 38 The "Midnight Sun." 39 Sun moves round the Earth. 40 Suez Canal--100 miles--level. 41 The "true level."--a curve. 42 Projectiles--firing east or west. 43 Bodies thrown upwards. 44 Firing in opposite direction. 45 Astronomer Royal of England. 46 An utterly meaningless theory. 47 Professor Proctor's cylinder. 48 Proctor's false perspective. 49 Motion of the clouds. 50 Scriptural proof--a plane. 51 The "Standing Order." 52 More ice in the south. 53 Sun's accelerated pace, south. 54 Balloons not left behind. 55 The Moon's beams are cold. 56 The Sun and Moon. 57 Not Earth's shadow at all. 58 Rotating and revolving. 59 Proctor's big mistake. 60 Sun's distance from Earth. 61 No true "measuring-rod." 62 Sailing "round" a thing. 63 Telescopes--"hill of water." 64 The laws of optics--Glaisher.