Zetetic Astronomy: The Earth not a Globe

Zetetic Astronomy: The Earth not a Globe is a book published by Samuel Rowbotham in 1865.

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In his book, Rowbotham expanded his ideas from his 1849 pamphlet Zetetic Astronomy and proposed that Earth is a flat disc centred at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, Antarctica. Rowbotham further held that the Sun and Moon were 3,000 miles (4,800 km) above Earth and that the "cosmos" was 3,100 miles (5,000 km) above Earth.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Garwood 2007, p. 46

Sources

  • Garwood, Christine (2007). Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea. Pan Books. ISBN 1-4050-4702-X.
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