Kings Dethroned
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Hickson pored through the methods that his predecessors had used to calculate the distance and the accounts of their work, searching for the means to disprove his theory but instead he found a mistake in Dr. Hailey’s diurnal method. Invented by Hailey in the nineteenth century and used as a basis for many other calculations about our solar system.
We can only imagine that Hickson must have gritted his teeth when he set himself the challenge of proving Dr. Hailey’s error. Kings Dethroned is the result of his research, and through his retracing of the steps of astronomers from the Roman Empire all the way up to the present day, we can see an accurate representation of the planets and our sun.
Gerrard Hickson, unlike his predecessors, took his findings to the general public and published this book for the consumption of all. Having been rejected or ignored by experts and scientific societies across the western world, he chose to trust in the public. He felt that the truth and his discovery were the wealth of the whole human species and in this modern age it does the reader only good to contemplate the necessity of constant and honest scientific enquiry.
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Kings Dethroned - Gerrard Hickson
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KINGS DETHRONED
A HISTORY OF THE EVOLUTION OF ASTRONOMY FROM THE TIME OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE UP TO THE PRESENT DAY; SHOWING IT TO BE AN AMAZING SERIES OF BLUNDERS FOUNDED UPON AN ERROR MADE IN THE SECOND CENTURY B.C.
By
GERRARD HICKSON
The diagrams in this book, with the exception of Nos. 1, 2, 7, 8 and 10, are the original work of the author, registered, and may not be reproduced for sale, lectures or motion pictures without his permission.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
PREFACE 5
REFERENCE NOTES. 6
Chapter One — WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG 8
Chapter Two — COPERNICUS AND GALILEO. 11
Chapter Three — OLE ROEMER’S BLUNDER 14
Chapter Four — GIANTS OF MODERN ASTRONOMY 17
Chapter Five — THE DISTANCE TO THE MOON 23
Chapter Six — ROMANTIC THEORIES 26
Chapter Seven — A GALAXY OF BLUNDERS 29
Chapter Eight — MARS 35
Chapter Nine — THE TRANSIT OF VENUS, AND THE DISTANCE TO THE SUN. 42
Chapter Ten — THE BIRTH OF A NEW ASTRONOMY 47
Chapter Eleven — THE EARTH STANDS STILL 50
Chapter Twelve — RELATIVITY
53
Chapter Thirteen — EINSTEIN’S THEORIES EXAMINED 56
Chapter Fourteen — EINSTEIN’S EVIDENCE 63
Chapter Fifteen — MARVELS OF ASTRONOMY 67
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 73
PREFACE
In the year 1907 the author made a remarkable discovery which convinced him that the sun was very much nearer to the earth than was generally supposed. The fact he had discovered was demonstrated beyond all doubt, so that he was compelled to believe that—however improbable it might seem—astronomers had made a mistake when they estimated the distance of the sun to be ninety-three millions of miles.
He then proceeded to examine the means by which the sun’s distance had been computed, and found an astounding error in the "Diurnal Method of Measurement by Parallax," which had been invented by Dr. Hailey in the early part of the 18th century, and which was used by Sir David Gill in measuring the distance to the planet Mars in 1877; from which he deduced his solar parallax of 8.80ʺ.
Seeing that Sir Norman Lockyer had said that the distance to and the dimensions of everything in the firmament except the moon depends upon Sir David Gill’s measurement to Mars, the author set himself the tremendous task of proving the error, tracing its consequences up to the present day, and also tracing it backwards to the source from which it sprang.
The result of that research is a most illuminating history of the evolution of astronomy from the time of the Roman Empire up to April 1922; which is now placed in the hands of the people in Kings Dethroned
The author has taken the unusual course of submitting these new and startling theories for the consideration of the general public because the responsible scientific societies in London, Washington and Paris, failed to deal with the detailed accounts of the work which he forwarded to them in the Spring of 1920. He believes that every newly-discovered truth belongs to the whole of mankind, wherefore, if those whose business it is to consider his work fail in their duty he does not hesitate to bring it himself direct to the people, assured of their goodwill and fair judgment.
Astronomy has ever been regarded as a study only for the few, but now all its strange terms and theories have been explained in the most lucid manner in "Kings Dethroned," so that everyone who reads will acquire a comprehensive knowledge of the science.
The author takes this opportunity of assuring the reader that none esteems more highly than he, himself, the illustrious pioneers who devoted their genius to the building of astronomy, for he feels that even while pointing out their errors he is but carrying on their work, striving, labouring even as they did, for the same good cause of progress in the interests of all. On the other hand, he thinks that astronomers living at the present time might have used to better purpose the greater advantages which this century provides, and done all that he himself has done by fearless reasoning, devoted labour; and earnest seeking after truth.
G. H.
REFERENCE NOTES.
Hipparchus and Triangulation. 4 Ptolemy.
Copernicus and Galileo. Heliocentric Theory. Kepler. The creation of the Royal Observatory.
Ole Roemer’s Blunder. Eclipses of Jupiter’s Satellites.
Newton, Gravitation, Halley. Diurnal method of measurement.
Kepler, Relative distances of the planets.
The Theory of the Aberration of Light.
The measurement to the Moon, Atmospheric Refraction, Equatorial Parallax.
Triangulation of the earth. Kant, Herschell, Laplace.
Nebular Hypothesis, Atomic Theory.
Encke—Transit of Venus and distance to sun.
Bessel, 61 Cygni.
A Light-year, an angle of Parallax. Stellar measurement.
The Theory of Parallax. 35 Perpendicularity, Geocentric Parallax.
Conflicting theories. Sidereal time.
The Copernican Theory disproved.
The Lunar Eclipse and Atmospheric Refraction.
The measurement of the distance to Mars. 44 Parallax unsound.
Mars—the two lines of sight diverge.
The Transit of Venus 1882. The various computations of the distance to the sun.
How to measure distance to the sun. Hipparchus proven in error.
The Michelson-Morley experiment.
Sir George Airy. Nordmeyer. The Petrograd lectures.
Relativity. 66 Einstein’s case simply explained.
Einstein’s definitions and theories examined.
The Law of the Constancy of the Velocity of Light.
The Principle of Relativity.
The Special Principle and Electro-Magnetic laws.
The Laws of Dynamics 1 and 2. Theory of Relativity fails.
Einstein’s three crucial tests.
Light and Gravity. Meeting of the R.A.S.
The evidence proven false.
Betelgeuse. 86 Spiral Nebula 584.
Conflicting opinions of living astronomers re Pons-Winnecke.
The ridiculous stories about Mars.
Hercules, N.G.C. 7006,
and preposterous figures. Conclusion.
The sequel to Kings Dethroned.
Chapter One — WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG
THREE thousand years ago men believed the earth was supported on gigantic pillars. The sun rose in the east every morning, passed overhead, and sank in the west every evening; then it was supposed to pass between the pillars under the earth during the night, to reappear in the east again next morning.
This idea of the universe was upset by Pythagoras some five hundred years before the birth of Christ, when he began to teach that the earth was round like a ball, with the sun going round it daily from east to west; and this theory was already about four hundred years old when Hipparchus, the great Greek scientist, took it up and developed it in the second century, B.C.
Hipparchus may be ranked among the score or so of the greatest scientists who have ever lived. He was the inventor of the system of measuring the distance to far off objects by triangulation, or trigonometry, which is used by our surveyors at the present day, and which is the basis of all the methods of measuring distance which are used in modern astronomy. Using this method of his own invention, he measured from point to point on the surface of the earth, and so laid the foundation of our present systems of geography, scientific map-making and navigation.
It would be well for those who are disposed to underestimate the value of new ideas to consider how much the world owes to the genius of Hipparchus, and to try to conceive how we could have made progress—as we know it—without him.
TRIANGULATION.
The principles of triangulation are very simple, but because it will be necessary—as I proceed—to show how modern astronomers have departed from them, I will explain them in detail.
Every figure made up of three connected lines is a tri—or three-angle, quite regardless of the length of any