Terra Firma: the Earth Not a Planet, Proved from Scripture, Reason, and Fact

Terra Firma: the Earth Not a Planet, Proved from Scripture, Reason, and Fact

This classic is organized as follows:<br /><br />I. Introductory Remarks<br />1. A Few Words About Gravitation<br />2. Fundamental Difference of Opinion Among Modern Astronomers<br />3. Testimony of Some Able Men Against the Copernican Theory<br />4. Quotations Showing Some of the Atheistical Results of Modern Astronomy<br /><br />II. The Adamic Creation<br />1. The Days of Creation Not Long Periods of Time, But Six Natural Days of 24 Hours Each<br />2. Not Two Races of Adamites<br />3. Refutation of the Theory of Two Different Authors of Genesis, From the Use of the Distinguishing Words Elohim and Jehovah-Elohim<br />4. No Discrepancy Exists Regarding the Adamic Creation in the Accounts Given in Genesis I. and II<br />5. Primeval Fauna and the Ages<br />6. Chipped Flints<br />7. The Supposed Glacial Period<br /><br />III. The Nebular Hypothesis. Examination of Three Alleged Proofs That the World Is Globular<br />1. The Nebular Hypothesis<br />2. The Circumnavigation of the Earth<br />3. The Appearance and Disappearance of Ships at Sea<br />4. The Earth’s Shadow in a Lunar Eclipse<br /><br />IV. Remarks on Some Other Alleged Proofs of the World’s Globularity<br />1. Variability of Pendulum Vibrations<br />2. Supposed Manifestation of the Rotation of the Earth<br />3. Railways and Earth’s Centrifugal Force<br />4. The Declination of the Pole Star<br />5. The Motion of Stars North and South<br />6. The Planet Neptune<br /><br />V. The World Circular But Not Globular; Has Immovable Foundations, Therefore Not a Planet<br />1. The Relative Proportion of Land and Water<br />2. The Compass a Proof That the Earth Is Not a Planet<br />3. Dangers of Navigation in Southern Seas, Caused by the Theory That the World Is Globular<br />4. The Supposed Revolution of the Earth Around the Sun Proved to Be Untrue<br />5. The Earth Stretched Upon the Waters, Which Have an Impassable Circumference<br />6. The Earth Proved to Have Immovable Foundations<br /><br />VI. The Horizontality of Land and Water Proved<br />1. Railways<br />2. Rivers<br />3. Canals<br />4. Submarine Cables<br />5. The Light of Lighthouses Seen at Great Distances<br /><br />VII. The Sun, Moon and Stars According to Modern Astronomy<br />1. The Sun<br />2. The Moon<br />3. The Stars<br /><br />VIII. The Sun According to the Scriptures<br />1. Light Comes Out of Darkness<br />2. Zetetic Measurements Respecting the Distance and Diameter of the Sun<br />3. Some Particulars Respecting the Sun<br />4. Scriptural Proof of the Rising and Setting of the Sun<br /><br />IX. The Sun’s Path and Work in the Heavens<br />1. The Cause of Day and Night and the Seasons<br />2. The Reason for Gain and Loss of Time at Sea<br />3. The Seasons of the Year<br />4. The Midnight Sun, and the Alternation of Summer and Winter in the Northern Centre<br />5. The Sun and the Zodiac<br /><br />X. The Sun Standing Still and Returning Backwards<br />1. The Sun Standing Still Over Gibeon<br />2. The Sun’s Shadow Turning Back Ten Degrees on the Dial of Ahaz<br /><br />XI. The Deluge: Biblical Account<br />1. The Date, Cause, and Extent of the Deluge<br />2. God’s Instructions to Noah Respecting the Ark<br />3. Some Objections Against the Deluge Answered<br />4. The Earth Not a Planet, Proved From the Waters Finding Their Own Level Above the Highest Mountains<br />5. Subsidence of the Waters, and Safe Debarkation of Noah and All With Him From the Ark<br />6. The Noachian Covenant<br />7. The Last Judgment on the Earth to Be by Fire<br /><br />XII. The Deluge: Traditional Records<br />1. Marks of the Deluge Visible in Many Lands<br />2. The Accadian or Old Chaldean Account of the Deluge<br />3. Extracts From Old Chaldean Epics, Declaring the Revolution of the Sun, and the Creation of Men and Animals<br />4. Babylonia Identified With the Garden of Eden<br /><br />XIII. The Great Deep, a Proof That the Earth Is Not a Planet<br />1. The Earth in Solution Before the Adamic Creation<br />2. The Tides and the Great Deep<br />3. The Great Gulf Stream and Currents of the Great Deep<br />4. The Rivers Come From and Return to the Great Deep<br /><br />XIV. Fragments Gathered Up<br />1. Locality<br />2. Up and Down<br />3. Some Other Reasons Why the Earth Is Not a Planet<br />4. Concluding Remarks