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Rowbotham and his followers gained notoriety by engaging in raucous public debates with leading scientists of the day. 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.
"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.
What we call the North Pole is in the center of the earth. 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. The continents float on an infinite ocean which somehow has a layer of fire underneath it. Rowbotham believed that the earth is flat.
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. 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.
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