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For balloonists such an instrument would sometimes be useful, as showing the elevation independently of the barometer, whenever any portion of the sea-horizon was in view. The mention of balloon experiences leads me to another delusive argument of the earth-flatteners.
The earth-flatteners I have been speaking of claim, as one of their objects, the defence of Scripture. For instance, Sir Richard Phillips, a more vehement earth-flattener than Parallax, was so little interested in defending the Scriptures, that in 1793 he was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for selling a book regarded as atheistic.
He expressed considerable astonishment when I informed him that, in the first place, projectiles do not travel on truly parabolic paths; and secondly, that in all respects their motion differs essentially from that which astronomers ascribe to comets. The earth-flatteners form a considerable section of the paradoxical family.
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