A treatise on the sublime science of heliography, satisfactorily demonstrating our great orb of light, the sun, to be absolutely no other than a body of ice! Overturning all the received systems of the universe hitherto extant, proving the celebrated and indefatigable Sir Isaac Newton, in his theory of the solar system, to be as far distant from the truth, as any of the heathen authors of Greece or Rome / By Charles Palmer, Gent.

Palmer, Charles (Accountant)

Date:: 1798

Credit: A treatise on the sublime science of heliography, satisfactorily demonstrating our great orb of light, the sun, to be absolutely no other than a body of ice! Overturning all the received systems of the universe hitherto extant, proving the celebrated and indefatigable Sir Isaac Newton, in his theory of the solar system, to be as far distant from the truth, as any of the heathen authors of Greece or Rome / By Charles Palmer, Gent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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• [ 3* ] This simple and natural system of the phenomina of nature, and physically accounting for the cause of all things proceeding from God in the triune operation of his works; demonstrates the actual rotatory motion of the earth, the ebu- lative motion of the sea, denominated tides, as well as the concussive motion of the air or veer¬ ing of the winds: and is the cause also of the increase, support, and decay of all life*, whether Vegetable, animal, or in the waters* The whole of the creation that we can view is as it were a drop—-the sediment of which we inhabit—and the ocean of air we breath in, and that surrounds us is at a certain distance— a firmament—a firm body of ice—beyond which —the idea of Moses is, that the Almighty placed the divided waters, the sun, moon, and stars. The wonder working power of magnetism has evidently the two extremes of the earth under its immediate influence, commonly denominated north and south poles, repelling each other by a certain circumscription; whilst the sun has the equinox or middle zone under his influence, whereby he empowers and attracts the air, the water, and the combination of both with the earth;

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