HU4039 : German theories controverted
near to Scalloway, Shetland Islands, Great Britain

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.
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"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."
"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.
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"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."
- Grid Square
- HU4039, 62 images (more nearby - lo-fi)
- Photographer
- James Yardley (find more nearby)
- Image classification
- Supplemental image
- Date Taken
- Saturday, 29 May, 1982 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Saturday, 15 March, 2008
- Category
- Inscription (more nearby)
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
HU 403 393 [100m precision]
WGS84: 60:8.2228N 1:16.4917W - Photographer Location
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OSGB36:
HU 403 393 - View Direction
- Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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