Excerpt from The Single Serpentine Course of the Moon Round the Sun and the Earth: Read at a Meeting of Members of the Society of Science, Letters and Art, of London Sm henry, ladies and gentlemen -in submitting to your consideration my discovery of the Single Serpentine Course of the Moon round the Sun and the Earth, I advance few arguments, since the reality has to be proved (or disproved) by tests of science. Having introduced the subject as a discovery, I have to consider what that word implies; and I think you will agree with me that a discovery is essentially the possession of something unknown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.