Draysonia: being an Attempt to Explain and Popularise the System of the Second Rotation of the Earth, as Discovered by the late Major-General A W Dray son; also giving the Probable Date and Duration of the Last Glacial Period, and Furnishing General Drayson's Data, from which any Person of Ordinary Mathematical Ability is Enabled to Calculate the Obliquity of the Ecliptic, the Precession of the Equinoxes, and the Right Ascension and Declination of the Fixed Stars for any Year, Past, Present, or Future

Abstract

GENERAL DRAYSON'S book on the “Motion of the Fixed Stars “is not a model of lucidity and generally fails to convince those who endeavour to grasp its argument. It was, therefore, most desirable that in selecting a commentator and literary executor the choice should fall on one who possessed the power of removing what was obscure in the theory and of placing the scheme in the most advantageous light. Admiral de Horsey has nothing to recommend him for the office he has undertaken but an unstinted admiration for the original author and a loyal desire to secure his recognition as a profound thinker. We respect and admire the sincerity of his conviction and his resolute effort to uphold the reputation of his departed friend. The struggle he has made is pathetic, but we regret to say he has only succeeded in darkening the issue.

Draysonia: being an Attempt to Explain and Popularise the System of the Second Rotation of the Earth, as Discovered by the late Major-General A. W. Dray son; also giving the Probable Date and Duration of the Last Glacial Period, and Furnishing General Drayson's Data, from which any Person of Ordinary Mathematical Ability is Enabled to Calculate the Obliquity of the Ecliptic, the Precession of the Equinoxes, and the Right Ascension and Declination of the Fixed Stars for any Year, Past, Present, or Future.

By Admiral Sir A. F. R. de Horsey Pp. ix + 76 + diagram. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911) Price 3s. 6d. net.