New Lands
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New Lands was the second nonfiction book of the author Charles Fort
, written in 1925. It deals primarily with astronomical
anomalies.
Fort expands in this book on his theory about the Super-Sargasso Sea
- a place where earthly things supposedly materialize in order to rain down on Earth - as well as developing an idea that there are continents above the skies of Earth. As evidence, he cites a number of anomalous phenomena, including strange "mirage
s" of land masses, groups of people, and animals in the skies. He also continues his attacks on scientific dogma
, citing a number of mysterious stars and planets that scientists failed to account for.
Of all of Fort's books, New Lands is the worst-regarded. His speculations (serious or joking, he does reveal) concerning continents in the sky and the supposed top-like shape of the Earth have dated considerably.
New Lands is available in Dover Publications
' The Complete Works of Charles Fort, with Fort's other paranormal writings, and an edited online version is linked below.
Charles Fort
Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print today.-Biography:Charles Hoy Fort was born in 1874 in Albany, New York, of Dutch...
, written in 1925. It deals primarily with astronomical
Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
anomalies.
Fort expands in this book on his theory about the Super-Sargasso Sea
Super-Sargasso Sea
The Super-Sargasso is the dimension into which lost things go, whose existence was proposed by Charles Hoy Fort, writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. It may be thought of as the spontaneous, anomalous teleportation of an object into another dimension...
- a place where earthly things supposedly materialize in order to rain down on Earth - as well as developing an idea that there are continents above the skies of Earth. As evidence, he cites a number of anomalous phenomena, including strange "mirage
Mirage
A mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French mirage, from the Latin mirare, meaning "to look at, to wonder at"...
s" of land masses, groups of people, and animals in the skies. He also continues his attacks on scientific dogma
Dogma
Dogma is the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, or a particular group or organization. It is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted, or diverged from, by the practitioners or believers...
, citing a number of mysterious stars and planets that scientists failed to account for.
Of all of Fort's books, New Lands is the worst-regarded. His speculations (serious or joking, he does reveal) concerning continents in the sky and the supposed top-like shape of the Earth have dated considerably.
New Lands is available in Dover Publications
Dover Publications
Dover Publications is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche. It publishes primarily reissues, books no longer published by their original publishers. These are often, but not always, books in the public domain. The original published editions may be...
' The Complete Works of Charles Fort, with Fort's other paranormal writings, and an edited online version is linked below.