Wanless Southwick

Wanless Southwick (PhD BYU) retired after careers in the US Army Medical Service Corps, environmental epidemiology, and education, all of which included research and study. He served as president of the Intermountain Society of Inventors and Designers in the 1970s. Among books he authored are Arabia’s Mountain of God where Moses, Elijah, and Lehi met with God (2024) and The Reason for Everything in the Grand Framework of Existence (2017). He and his wife, Jerrie, are the parents of eight children, and have thirty-five grandchildren and twenty-three great grandchildren at last count.

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Why was the Liahona a Sphere? A New Perspective on Its Form and Function

by Wanless Southwick, Kyle Kinghorn | undefined 66 | 08-01-2025

Abstract: A new, simpler design for the Liahona is proposed, which, if correct, makes the reason for two spindles and a hollow-ball shape perfectly obvious. Previous proposed models of the Liahona usually show horizontal, compass-like pointers inside an open-top ball, but our model has vertical spindles protected inside a hollow ball with viewing ports to […]

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