Is the World Flat? The Flatlander's theory..

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SunnyJim

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cannabineer said:
found your book.


Flat Earth (Public Domain Image)
Zetetic Astronomy
Earth Not a Globe
by Parallax (Samuel Birley Rowbotham)
[1881]
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Me too. Then I found this little gem:

Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884), a 19th century religious fundamentalist, headed an Owenite colony, and promoted the flat earth philosophy. He’s a shadowy figure for historians. He had a reputation of cynical dishonesty, and some think he didn’t really believe what he promoted. He was an itinerant lecurer, and wrote under several pseudonyms: Tryon, S. Goulden, Parallax, and Dr. Birley. His major work was Earth Not a Globe written in 1849.

Rowbotham concocted the fiendishly clever idea of light refraction in curved paths to ‘save the hypothesis’ of the flat earth, to account for what he called the ‘optical illusions’ of sunrise and sunset. Rowbotham is the first flat-earther to give the size of the sun: 32 miles in diameter, a figure accepted by flat-earthers today. However, he gave the distance to the sun as 700 miles, a figure hard to reconcile with his value for its diameter.
 
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SunnyJim said:
Me too. Then I found this little gem:

Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884), a 19th century religious fundamentalist, headed an Owenite colony, and promoted the flat earth philosophy. He’s a shadowy figure for historians. He had a reputation of cynical dishonesty, and some think he didn’t really believe what he promoted. He was an itinerant lecurer, and wrote under several pseudonyms: Tryon, S. Goulden, Parallax, and Dr. Birley. His major work was Earth Not a Globe written in 1849.

Rowbotham concocted the fiendishly clever idea of light refraction in curved paths to ‘save the hypothesis’ of the flat earth, to account for what he called the ‘optical illusions’ of sunrise and sunset. Rowbotham is the first flat-earther to give the size of the sun: 32 miles in diameter, a figure accepted by flat-earthers today. However, he gave the distance to the sun as 700 miles, a figure hard to reconcile with his value for its diameter.
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Now you've gone and done it! LOL
 
Mellowman2112

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SunnyJim said:
Me too. Then I found this little gem:

Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884), a 19th century religious fundamentalist, headed an Owenite colony, and promoted the flat earth philosophy. He’s a shadowy figure for historians. He had a reputation of cynical dishonesty, and some think he didn’t really believe what he promoted. He was an itinerant lecurer, and wrote under several pseudonyms: Tryon, S. Goulden, Parallax, and Dr. Birley. His major work was Earth Not a Globe written in 1849.

Rowbotham concocted the fiendishly clever idea of light refraction in curved paths to ‘save the hypothesis’ of the flat earth, to account for what he called the ‘optical illusions’ of sunrise and sunset. Rowbotham is the first flat-earther to give the size of the sun: 32 miles in diameter, a figure accepted by flat-earthers today. However, he gave the distance to the sun as 700 miles, a figure hard to reconcile with his value for its diameter.
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Nice posthumous hit piece.
 
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