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"Exposes the grave mistakes and miscalculations of modern astronomy." -The Bookman 1901"Convincing argument against the planet theory." - T.P.'s Weekly 1904"Geographers will now hasten to correct their maps and adopt that given by the author, showing the earth as a circle." - Westminster Review, 1901"One of the fullest contributions to 'zetetic” astronomy." - Sotheran's 1908The chief task Scott appears to have set himself in writing his 1901 book "Terra Firma: The Earth Not a Planet," appears to have been to attempt to prove that the earth is a disc, and not a globe. This disc is surrounded by the waters of the Great Deep, which in their turn are contained in a "vast basin of impregnable rocks." This "stupendous basin of rocks" is upheld " by the Fiat of God," and the whole arrangement is supposed to be situated in the " farthest known Southern Seas," where we have hitherto innocently imagined the South Pole to be located. Thus, according to David Wardlaw Scott (1823-1901), the fundamental error is that science supposes the earth to be a globe. It is as flat as a pancake and as fixed as one of its own rocks. When this is established, other things follow. It follows that evolution is 'a dangerous form of Buddhist metempsychosis, altogether unscriptural, unnatural, and untrue.'As to the age of the earth, the orthodox six thousand years is considered sufficient by the author, and "the statements of geologists are all unsatisfactory." We must not believe in the Laplace nebular hypothesis because "it is downright atheism," nor may we credit the theory that the earth revolves round the sun. With regard to this latter theory Mr. Scott says: "I can only account for the delusion as having been introduced by Satan into the minds of certain men, who could inoculate those of others with the poison, his object being to make it appear that God is a liar, and to befool the human race, which he so much abhors."One of Mr. Scott's objections was that if a projectile is fired from a moving body there is a difference in the distance to which it carries according to the direction in which it is sent. But as in practice there is not the slightest difference whichever way the thing is done, in the case of the earth ‘we have a forcible overthrow of all fancies relative to the motion of the earth, and a striking proof that the earth is not a globe.’In introducing his work, Scott writes: "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 I have had cataract in both eyes, so that it was not without difficulty that I could read or write. So great, however, appeared to be the need, and being still anxious to serve my generation, I determined to undertake this work in order to expose the fallacies of modern astronomy." There is much original matter in this book, which will likely prove a source of amusement to the class of "learned scientific men," while some may simply regard it as an interesting case of mental atavism. As one such critic smugly put it, "to us it appears full of a rich cosmic humour."However, in spite of these critics, as Humphrey's Monthly Review observed in 1959, "David Wardlaw Scott believed the earth to be flat and persuaded others to agree."

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