New Lands (Annotated)

In New Lands (1923), Charles Fort turns his skeptical, mordantly comic attention to astronomy, meteorology, and the certainties of institutional science. As in The Book of the Damned, he assembles reports of unexplained lights, wandering planets, strange falls, eclipses, and celestial anomalies, not to establish a single alternative system but to unsettle the reader's confidence in official explan...