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Title: The waters above the firmament, or The earth's annular system
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Vail, Isaac Newton, 1840-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Ferris and Leach
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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n otherwisethese have fallen in polar regions! All that is neededfor men to understand this is first to abandon the un-reasonable and unnatural claim that these waters allfell to the earth in archsean and pre-glacial times; andadmit the purely philosophic and natural fall of thesame from over-canopying belts spreading and movingthrough the ages with a step as sure as the movement * We have but to read such works as Agas^izs GeologicalSketches to understand the immensity of the ice field thatmoved over the Northern Hemisphere during the great ice age.Glaciers accumulated in the St. Lawrence Valley several thousandfeet thick. In their limitless sweep they towered over the NewEngland Mountains, scoring and planing their rocky sides sixthousand feet above the ocean. I have seen their tracks indeliblychiseled 1,500 feet above glaciated valleys in the Blue Ridge. Thesame glacier that was urged up the St. Lawrence Valley no doubtfilled the basin of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley.
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Fig. 7. ASTEKIE, OR STARRY ISLE.Td (T utTToa yjv. dnyd; //^v OoAotidcb^ v^syOT^^a:.—Diogrnes Laertius. 1 have here illustrated Tvhat must be more fully explained in another volume,—the vaultedenclosures of the northern skj-, the last form of every falling vrorld-beU. The Greek quotationhere taken from the writings of Diogenes Laertius is the )\roabite Stone of th:s problem, andthough translated variously, it simply tells us that the^Arctic stars once rnvolced in n Ihohs.Now a tholos is a vaulted enclosure—a space enclosed by an arched roof or dome. The authorI have here quoted tells us that this was the doctrine of the earliest astronomers, and citesAnaxagoras as its advocate. But it matters not who first said thatjhe archaic stars revolved(or dwelt) in a dome-shaped chamber. It affirms that the stars spoken of were north polarstars, for as surely as the earth had a canopy, as I have proved, man saw the stars first in adime-shnped enclosure, and they were called archac stars bec

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