Rockets In Narnia! The Silver Chair Spoilers

rja.carnegie.DeleteThis@excite.com writes:

> I've forgotten where it might be established that Narnia is a flat
> world.

"Voyage of the Dawn Treader", I think. Reepicheep sails over the edge
of the world.

> It would imply that sailing ships technically never pass out of
> sight of their home port unless there is other land in between, I think
> - unless there's a trick for that.

Certain flat-earther homepages may be able to give you some idea to
the trick in it.

> As to how seasons may work, there are lots of ways - the sun gets
> nearer or further away, or dimmer or brighter, or there's a periodic
> change in the atmosphere...

Remember that Narnia is a flat world where beavers talk and the stars
are alive. Expecting seasons to have anything to do with what might be
relevant in our local universe is a major assumption.

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In article <1136204442.069218.250230 RemoveThis @f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
<rja.carnegie RemoveThis @excite.com> wrote:
>
>I've forgotten where it might be established that Narnia is a flat
>world. It would imply that sailing ships technically never pass out of
>sight of their home port unless there is other land in between, I think
>- unless there's a trick for that.

I wonder if temperature and humidity gradiants in the air above the
sea could do the trick.

>talk.origins, the newsgroup where creationists are allowed to dispute
>with people who take the view of modern orthodox science on the
>subject, gets into this more often than it should, given a Christian
>flat-earth view is historically limited to about a dozen clerical
>authors who never saw the sea, and Washington Irving. But apparently
>there was a belief that the equator was unsurvivably hot so that you
>couldn't live there. It was therefore also impossible for missionaries
>to travel to the southern hemisphere, and so there could not be humans
>living there, since God could not save their souls through Christ if
>they didn't know about him. Weaknesses in this argument - including,
>perhaps, Noah's Flood having put the fires out - need not be considered
>here, but in such a world as that the question of Christmas in summer
>would not arise.

Actually, some ancient Greeks speculated about the idea of northern
and southern hemispheres being separated by an unsurvivable region
around the equator--as have some modern SF writers. It is a possible
scenario for an Earthlike planet, just not for Earth itself.
However, the Greeks were in communication with some folks
not very far from the equator, and by Roman times I think some lands
on the equator were known about and possibly traded with. There
would have been no excuse for anyone in the Christian era to think
that the equator was uninhabitable or impassible.

One of the characters in Voyage of the Dawn Treader refers to the
world as a round table with the oceans constantly pouring over
the edge, but how accurate is his knowledge of his own world?
I will conceed that accurate astrologer/astronomers, which Narnia
seems to have, should be able to determine whether their world is
flat or not, but it would seem that no one had previously gone
to examine the edge. In Dawn Treader, the ocean appears to shallow
out at the eastern edge of the world; we know that there are frozen
wastes to the north of Narnia, but not that they are necessarily
at the edge of the world. Calormene is a hot country (Calor? hmmm...)
but we do not know if it lies at the southern edge. About the
west, nothing is known. (Opposite of Tolkien, that.)

BTW, Narnia is *not* connected to other worlds at the edges. It
is connected at times thru portals, and the platonic ideal of
Narnia is attached to Aslan's country like a spoke from a hub,
but that is not the Narnia of the first six books.

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