Author: Klee, Frederik [1808-1864]
Title: Syndfloden : En Raekke af geologiske Hypotheser, fremsatte fra et verdenshistorisk Standpunct
Description: Kjøbenhavn, Forfatterens Forlag, 1842. 1/4-leather. 20x13cm, 303 pp. Text entirely in Danish. Contemporary binder's quarter-leather.. Rubbed. Exterior hinges cracked & torn. Foxed. Just Good. ¶ ["Probably the first extensive treatment (of the Polar wandering thesis) was that of Frederik Klee (1808-1864), A Danish scholar who published a book on the Deluge in Copenhagen (1842). Klee's approach blends geology with the study of mythological sources; his attitude to the Bible is respectful but not fundamentalist.... He nevertheless came to the conclusion that originally the lands of the earth had formed a single continent: 'Europe, Asia and North America were joined at the North Pole so as to form a continent of prodigious size, stretching towards the South Pole in three peninsulars: South America, Africa and Oceania'. After reviewing the dfifferent lands that have disappeared since that time as a result of the Deluge, Klee concludes that the only satisfactory way to account for all the changes is by assuming that there was a displacement of the earth''s rotational axis. Formerly he says, it was probably on the equator, between the longitude of Hierro Island, and the opposite point, while the present poles were then equatorial. Klee's is not an axial shift,but a change in the locations on earth through which the axis passes. As for the cause of this displacement which he believed to have been sudden and quite violent, Klee was not prepared to specifiy it..." - Joscelyn Godwin "Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival" pp 215-216].

Keywords: History of Science, History of Science, Catastrophism, Deluge, Geology, , , ,