DIRECTLY OPPOSED TO THE SCRIPTURES,
AND, IN VERY MANY INSTANCES,

CONTRARY TO REASON AND FACT:

ALSO,

THAT THE SCRIPTURES GIVE THE TRUEST AND MOST REASON-
ABLE ACCOUNT OF ASTRONOMY: TOGETHER WITH AN HYPO-
THESIS AGREEING WITH SCRIPTURE, REASON, EXPERIENCE,
OUR SENSES, AND KNOWN FACTS, IN WHICH IS INCLUDED A
NEW METHOD OF ASCERTAINING THE SIZE AND DISTANCE OF
THE SUN, MOON, ETC.

BY

WILLIAM LANDER, SEN.,

MERE, WILTS.

ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS.

"Search the Scriptures."-JESUS CHRIST.

"If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in
them."-ISAIAH.

"He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh
and searcheth him."-PROVERBS Xviii. 17.

BOD

MERE:

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1833.

154. f. 10

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.-Motives and design of the work.

CHAPTER II. The necessity of receiving Scripture as

truth, although we might not be able fully to compre-

hend it.

CHAPTER III.-The preposterous ideas of some who have

written on the subject of Astronomy, and their dis-

cordance with Scripture.

CHAPTER IV.-An endeavour to prove the futility of

many worlds; and, that the whole planetary system

was designed for this earth alone.

CHAPTER V.-The necessity of following up the ideas ad-
vanced, (if approved of,) in order to complete the
system; together with an hypothesis attempting to
reconcile Astronomy with Scripture, our Senses, Rea-
son, Experience, and Fact.