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MUGGLETONIANS—CELESTIAL CHARTS. FROST, ISAAC. Fl. 1846.
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MUGGLETONIANS—CELESTIAL CHARTS.
FROST, ISAAC. Fl. 1846. Suite of six celestial charts, each 255 x 318 mm, engraved by W.P. Clubb after Isaac Frost, "printed in oil colors by G. Baxter Patentee, 11, Northampton Square," [1846]. Matted, framed and glazed together.
An attractive suite of plates demonstrating the Muggletonian sect's geocentric astronomical theory, which refuted the Newtonian standpoint. Isaac Frost, a scientist and author (with his brother) of The Works of J. Reeve and L. Muggleton (1832) was a practicing Muggletonian, the religious sect founded in the aftermath of the English Civil War by two cousins who claimed themselves to be the "two witnesses" mentioned in the Book of Revelations.
The plates, first issued under the title Two Systems of Astronomy, illustrate the "The Newtonian System of the Universe," and "The System According to the Holy Scipture," the text caption on plate 6 reading "This diagram will show that if the Earth revolves round the sun, as the Solar System states, then it will necessarily follow, that the Earth will differ in its position with the sun and any given fixed star on its equator, every day throughout the whole year. Now consider it is so. If it is not so, then it will make much in favor of the Holy Scriptures, that the Sun revolves round the Earth."
They were presumably circulated amongst members of the Muggletonian sect (which, due to a rule on not proselytizing, remained small until the last member died in 1979) and therefore printed in limited numbers. Printed by George Baxter, using his patented colour oil technique, they were originally unrecorded by Baxter's first bibliographer Courtney Lewis.
An attractive suite of plates demonstrating the Muggletonian sect's geocentric astronomical theory, which refuted the Newtonian standpoint. Isaac Frost, a scientist and author (with his brother) of The Works of J. Reeve and L. Muggleton (1832) was a practicing Muggletonian, the religious sect founded in the aftermath of the English Civil War by two cousins who claimed themselves to be the "two witnesses" mentioned in the Book of Revelations.
The plates, first issued under the title Two Systems of Astronomy, illustrate the "The Newtonian System of the Universe," and "The System According to the Holy Scipture," the text caption on plate 6 reading "This diagram will show that if the Earth revolves round the sun, as the Solar System states, then it will necessarily follow, that the Earth will differ in its position with the sun and any given fixed star on its equator, every day throughout the whole year. Now consider it is so. If it is not so, then it will make much in favor of the Holy Scriptures, that the Sun revolves round the Earth."
They were presumably circulated amongst members of the Muggletonian sect (which, due to a rule on not proselytizing, remained small until the last member died in 1979) and therefore printed in limited numbers. Printed by George Baxter, using his patented colour oil technique, they were originally unrecorded by Baxter's first bibliographer Courtney Lewis.