Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe - Softcover

Parallax; Rowbotham, Samuel Birley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 168422084X ISBN 13: 9781684220847

Publisher: Martino Fine Books, 2017

Synopsis

2017 Reprint of 1865 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  Zetetic Astronomy is a key work of flat-earth thought, just as Donnelly's Atlantis, the Antediluvian World is still considered required reading on the subject of Atlantis.  If you ever have to debate the flat earth pro or con, this book is a complete agenda of each point that you'll have to argue.  Rowbotham believed that the earth is flat. The continents float on an infinite ocean which somehow has a layer of fire underneath it. The lands we know are surrounded by an infinite wilderness of ice and snow, beyond the Antarctic Ocean, bordered by an immense circular ice-cliff. What we call the North Pole is in the center of the earth.

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About the Author

About the Author:

"Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816 - 1884), was an English inventor and writer who wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe, based on his decade-long scientific studies of the earth, published a 16-page pamphlet (1849), which he later expanded into a 430 page book (1881) expounding his views. According to Rowbotham's scientific method, which he called Zetetic Astronomy, the earth is a flat disk centered at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, with the sun, moon, planets, and stars only a few hundred miles above the surface of the earth.

Rowbotham and his followers gained notoriety by engaging in raucous public debates with leading scientists of the day. One such clash, involving the prominent naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, led to several lawsuits for fraud and libel.

After Rowbotham's death, his thousands of followers established the Universal Zetetic Society, published a magazine entitled The Earth Not a Globe Review and remained active well into the early part of the 20th century. After World War I, the movement underwent a slow decline.

In the United States Rowbotham's ideas were taken up by a religious cult, the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

Edition details

• Publisher: Martino Fine Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 168422084X
• ISBN 13: 9781684220847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226