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TERRA
FIRMA:
THE
EARTH
NOT
A
PLANET.
PROVED
FROM
SCRIPTURE,
REASON,
AND
FACT.
BY
DAVID
WARDLAW
AUTHOR
OF
SCOTT,
"
Dora
MarcelH
;
"
"
The
Contrast,
and
other
Poems
;"
"
Water
and
the
Spirit;
"God
Misunderstood;"
"
The
Purpose
of
the
Ages
;"
"Hades
and
Beyond;"
&c.
"
Fot
He
hath
founded
it
upon
—
Psahn
xxiv,
the
seas,
and
established
2.
it
upon
the
floods."
LONDON
SiHFKiN,
Marshall, Hamilton,
Kent,
&
Co.,
Ltd.
Tracker,
Spink,
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Ltd.
fgoi.
All
rights
reserved.
PREFACE.
I
am
now
an
old
man,
and,
had
I
consulted
my
own
comfort,
would
never
have
penned
a
line
of
this
book,
as
for
some
years
So
still
I
have
had
cataract
in
both
eyes,
so
difficulty
that
write.
it
was
not
without
that
I
could
read
or
great,
however,
appeared
to
be
the
need,
and
being
anxious
to
serve
my
generation,
I
determined
to
undertake
this
work,
in
order
to
expose
the
fallacies
of
Modem
Astronomy,
which
are
so
contrary to
the
Word
of
God,
I
and
so
conducive
to
the
promotion
lists
of
Infidelity.
do
not
enter
the
arrayed
in
the
panoply
of
Neo-
Science,
to
fight this
great
Goliath,
but
only with
a few
pebbles
of
the
brook,
yet
I
trust
that,
with
God's
blessing,
the
attempt
may
not
be
altogether
I
am
well
aware
that
—
it
fruitless.
"
as
it
was
in
the
days
of
Noe,
so
shall
be
also
26.
it
in
the
days
of
the
Son
of
Man
times
''
Luke
fiis
xvii.
But,
while
is
we
should
be
ever
ready
for
Coming,
seasons,
"
not
for
us
"
to
know
the
in
or
the
which
the
Father
hath
put
i.
power
"
in
the
moming
7
;
and
we
are
sow
thy
seed,
and
in
the
evening
wFthhold
not
thine
hand,
Acts
exhorted
—
His
own
for
thou
knowest
not
It
which
shall
prosper"
Ecc.
xi.
6.
may
be
that
these
pages
may
meet
the
need
of
some,
who
have
not
altogether
been
misled
by
unprovable
fancies,
and
who
will
rejoice
to
find
that
the
Biblical
account
of
Creation
is,
after
all,
the
only
one
which
can
be depended
upon,
and
that
its
Modem
that
Astronomy,
dangerous
is
like
kindred
theory
of
Evolution,
and
degraded
form
of
Buddhist
metempsychosis,
but
"
a
mockery,
a
delusion,
and
a
snare."
nothing
Thus
may
PREFACE.
the
eyes
of
the
understanding
be
cleared
of
that
obstruc-
which
obscures
the
sight
of
many
otherwise
sound
minds,
owing
to
the
evil
effects
produced
thereon
tive
cataract,
by
"
science
falsely
so
called
"
—
/
Tim.
vi.
20.
Not
being
a
professional
Astronomer,
I
required
read
and
think
much
while
writing
this
book,
and
had
statement
which
is
to
to
weigh
every
matter
in
an
even
balance,
so
as
to
make
no
not
in
I
strict
conformity
with
Scripture,
Reason,
or
Fact.
am
especially
indebted
to
"
The
first
Earth
(not
a
Globe)
Review,"
which
was
the
means
of
inducing
(Parallax)
me
to
begin
this
"Zetetic
—
Astronomy"
—
work
^to
^to
Dr.
Rowbotham's
Carpenter's
Mr.
is
"
One
Hundred
Proofs
that
the
Earth
"
Zetetic
not
a
Globe
"
I
and
to
Mr.
Winship's
express
"
Cosmogony."
would
also
my
best
thanks
to
"
Zetetes,"
the
late
Editor
of
(not
a
Globe)
Review,"
who,
at
The
Earth
my
am
is
request,
carefully
read
Printers,
my
manuscript
before
it
its
being
sent
to
the
and
who,
on
returning
I
wrote
—
" I
pleased
in
your
it
to
be
in
perfect
accordance
with so
much
that
book."
could
not expect
him
to
say
more,
as
rarely
happens
that
men
of
independent
thought
can
see
every-
thing
in
exactly
the
same
light.
The
favourable
testimony
of
such
an
expert
in
Astronomic
subjects as
"Zetetes,"
gives
me
confidence
in
placing
the
result
of
my
it
labour
before
the
Public,
and
I
sincerely
trust
that
may
not
be
"in
vain
those
of
truth
of
in
the
Lord,"
but
that
it
will
be
helpful
to
my
Readers
who
are
desirous
of
searching
out
the
D.
God,
as
revealed
in
His
works
of
Creation.
WARDLAW
SCOTT.
25
Trinity
Road,
Wood
Green,
London,
March,
1901.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Map
of
Preface
the
World
as
a
Plane
-
-
Frontispiece
iii
CHAPTER
SECTION
1.
I.
Introductory
Rbmarks.
A
few
words
about
Gravitation
...
l<be
i
2.
Fundamental
difference
of
opinion
among
Modern
-
-
-
Astronomers
Testimonies
of
some
able
9
17
3.
Theory
4.
...
men
against
Copernican
Quotations
showing
some
of
the
Atheistical
Results
of
Modern
Astronomy
-
-
21
CHAPTER
The
Adamic
J.
n.
Creation.
The
Days
Not
two
of
Creation
not
long
periods
of
time,
but
Six
-
-
Natural
Days
of
twenty-four
hours
each
2.
3.
races
of
Adamites
...
-
-
-
31
37
Refutation
of
the
Theory
of
two
different
authors
of
Genesis,
from
the use
of
the
distinguishing
words
Elohim
and
JEHOVAH-Elohim
4.
-
43
47
50
55
No
Discrepancy
exists,
regarding
the
Adamic
Creation,
in
the
accounts
given
in
Genesis
I.
and
II.
-
-
5.
6.
7.
Primeval
Fauna
and
the
Ages
Chipped
Flints
-
The
supposed
Glacial
Period
-
"57
v5
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
The
Nebular
Hypothesis:
SECTION
1.
III.
Examination
of
three
PAGE
Alleged
Proofs
of
the
World's
Globularity.
The
Nebular
Hypothesis
The
Circumnavigation
The
Earth's
shadow
-
-
-
63
2.
3.
4.
of
the
Earth
67
-
The
Appearance
and
Disappearance
in
of
Ships
at
Sea
-
-
73
a
Lunar
Eclipse
77
CHAPTER
IV.
Remarks
on
some
other
Alleged
Proofs
of
the
World's
Globularity.
1.
Variability
of
Pendulum
Vibrations
-
85
2.
Supposed
Manif^tation
of
the
Rotation
of
the
Earth
Railways
and
Earth's
Centrifugal
Force
Declination
of
the
Pole
Star
-
-
86
89
3.
4.
5.
go
91
Motion
of
Stars
North
and
South
-
6.
The
Planet
Neptune
-
93
CHAPTER
The
World
V.
;
Circular,
but
not
Globular
has
immovable
Foundations,
therefore
not
a
Planet.
1.
Relative
Proportion
of
Land
and
Water
is
-
96
98
102
108
-
-
2.
The
Compass
a
proof
that
the
Earth
in
not
a
Planet
3.
Dangers
of
Navigation
Southern
Seas,
caused
by
the
-
theory
that
the
World
is
Globular
of the
Earth
around
the
sun
-
.
.
4.
The
supposed
Revolution
proved
to
be
untrue
5.
The
Earth
stretched
out
upon
the
Waters,
which
have
an
Impassable
Circumference
6.
m
117
The
Earth
proved
to
have
Immovable
Foundations

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