Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot,

adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly.

And off we go.

Tonight let's return to one of the strangest books ever read on this podcast

Sims Theory of Concentric Spheres, demonstrating that the Earth is hollow, habitable

within and widely open about the polls,

written by a citizen of the United States,

and published in 1826

by Morgan Lodge and Fisher, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Let's pick up where we left off.

Chapter 3. Sim's Theory supported by arguments drawn from the principles inherent in matter,

and the consequences resulting from motion,

tending to show that, from necessity, matter must form itself into

concentric circles or spheres, such as Sims describes the Earth to be composed of.

It is a principle laid down by Sir Isaac Newton,

the correctness of which is generally admitted that matter attracts matter in proportion to its quantity and the squares of its distances in

Captain Sims contends that gravity consists in a certain expansive quality in the molecules which constitute the aerial fluid called ether, which fills universal space, and creates

a pushing instead of a pulling power.

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