Isaac Vail

Isaac Vail in about 1906

Isaac N. Vail

Isaac Newton Vail (b.1840 Barnesville, OH, d. Jan 26, 1912 Pasadena, CA ^[1]) (Isaac N. Vail) was a quaker learned in mathematics, astronomy, Latin and Greek.^[2] He is known for his "Canopy Theory" who, "in 1886, had come to the conclusion that the Earth had once been girdled by a doughnut-like structure of ice crystals which, in keeping with Genesis 1:6-8, he alluded to as the firmament".^[3]

Alfred de Grazia in his book, Chaos and Creation, labels Vail as a prominent catastrophist.^[4]

References

Bibliography

• Waters above the Firmament (1874)

• Misread Record
• Eden's Flaming Sword
• The Ring of Truth
• The Heavens and Earth of Prehistoric Man
• Canopy Skies of Ancient Man
• A Glance at Compartive Mythology

• The Vailan or annular theory: a synopsis of Prof. I.N. Vail's argument in support of the claim that this earth once possessed a Saturn-like system of rings (1892) at The Internet Archive

• Alaska, Land of the Nugget: Why? :a Critical Examination of Geological and Other Testimony, Showing how and why Gold was Deposited in Polar Lands, by Isaac Newton Vail, Published by Press of G.A. Swerdfiger, 1897. 68 pages. At The Internet Archive

• The Earth's Annular system, or The waters above the firmament, the world record scientifically explained (1912) at The Internet Archive
• The Misread Record or The Deluge and its Cause (at Google books) (alternative version) (1921)

• Celestial Records of the Orient
• Golden Age Canopy
• Mythic Mountains

See also

• Donald L. Cyr, Waters above the Firmament, 1988, Stonehenge Viewpoint. IFFN 0140-654X
• Dwardu Cardona, "The Reflective Canopy Model and the Mytho-historical Record", Aeon IV:4 (Apr 1996)