File:German theories controverted - geograph.org.uk - 725274.jpg
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English: German theories controverted This curious feature was engraved on a house wall in 1910 by William Johnson, a Scalloway stonemason and amateur scientist:
"This diagram illustrates the cause of the so called Earth Tides. Also each alternate Ocean Flood, the cause of which has never yet been understood. Re Earth Tides: we are told that the Moon raises the solid surface of the Earth under it about 8 inches and raises the OPPOSITE SIDE 8 [inches]. This I hold to be impossible. The phenomenon called EARTH TIDES IS CAUSED BY EARTH's WEIGHT PULLING AGAINST THE SUN'S ATTRACTION. ............ "The water flows back when attraction over & forms a heap on opposite side of Earth. to balance attn. flood. There is no ..." [the rest of the inscription is illegible and appears to have been deliberately effaced.] The white circle is a diagram of the earth and is also marked: "GERMAN THEORIES CONTROVERTED Germans are Not The Favoured of Heaven." |
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| Author | James Yardley |
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