thereafter to defend his position. His biographers make no mention of it. The other men seem almost obsessed, especially Lange;--like the Italian painter, Sindico, who bombarded the director of the Paris Observatory in 1878 with many letters protesting against the Copernican system.[433] [Footnote 425: De Morgan: II, 335.] [Footnote 426: White: I, 150.] [Footnote 427: Schoepffer: _The Earth Stands Fast_, title-page, 6-7.] [Footnote 428: Ibid: Supplement by Allaben, 21, 74.] [Footnote 429: Ibid: Note by J.W. de P., 74.] [Footnote 430: De Peyster and Allaben: _Algol_, preface.] [Footnote 431: Lange: _The Copernican System: The Greatest Absurdity in the History of Human Thought_.] [Footnote 432: De Peyster and Allaben: _Algol_, 74.] [Footnote 433: Sindico: _Refutation du Système de Copernic...._] German writers, whether Lutherans or not, appear to have opposed the system more often in the last century than have the writers of other nationalities. Besides those already mentioned, one proposed an ingenious scheme in which the sun moves through space followed by the planets as a comet is by its tail, the planets revolving in a plane perpendicular to that of the sun's path. A diagram of it would be cone-shaped. He included in this pamphlet, besides a list of his own books, (all published in Leipsic), a list of twenty-six titles from 1758 to 1883, books and pamphlets evidently opposed in whole or in part to the modern astronomy, and seventeen of these were in German or printed in Germany.[434] In this country at St. Louis was issued an _Astronomische Unterredung_ (1873) by J.C.W.L.; according to the late President White, a bitter attack on modern astronomy and a decision by the Scriptures that the earth is the principal body of the universe, that it stands fixed, and that the sun and the moon only serve to light it.[435] [Footnote 434: Tischner: _Le Système Solaire se Mouvant_. (1894).] [Footnote 435: White: I, 151.]