Conclusions
¥TottenÕs work has no foundation independent of the Bible, and it is doubtful whether he properly understood Scripture in regard to his fixed-point, the date of creation.
¥Sometime between TottenÕs work in 1890 and RimmerÕs in 1936, the results were put in the form of a dramatic story in which Totten becomes a bystander and a skeptical astronomer the calculator.