Flammarion’s Theory of Earth’s Poles

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 18, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 11.

Flammarion’s Theory of Earth’s Poles

Camille Flammarion, the well-known French astronomer, has what he admits is “only a theory, and one which the exact science of astronomy does not so far support,” that the South Pole was once the Equator of the earth, and that the two opposite points now on the Equator were frozen poles. How long will it be before Flammarion’s guess at this thing will be stated as a fact of science? It is so easy to place a hypothesis, or speculation, of scientific men before the mass of the people as discoveries, when the men who first gave utterance to them did not so regard them in any way.