Zetetic Astronomy by Samuel Birley Rowbotham

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. Samuel Birley Rowbotham advances the Flat Earth theory, which holds that Earth is not in fact an oblate spheroid planet, but an enclosed plane above which. 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 o. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe (Trade Paperback / Paperback)Ģ017 Reprint of 1865 Edition. Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe - The Classic Book Examining Flat Earth Theory and Doctrine (Trade Paperback / Paperback) Various chapters concern motion of the heavenly bodies, sunrises, sunsets, the tidal movements, and distances of the Sun and Moon from Earth. Most of these are framed with illustrations and diagrams, that the reader understands Rowbotham's notions. Experiments and demonstrations are conducted in support of the Earth being flat, with the astronomical bodies situated above, rather than around it. In 1881 the author expanded and published this book, in part to meet public and scientific scrutiny.

Rowbotham was already an inventor and author, and over time theories of Zetetic Astronomy - in which the Earth is flat - became popular.

This book began as a pamphlet in the 1840s, explaining the theory with a few sketches alongside. This premium edition contains all of Rowbotham's original graphs, charts and drawings. Samuel Birley Rowbotham advances the Flat Earth theory, which holds that Earth is not in fact an oblate spheroid planet, but an enclosed plane above which the astronomical bodies are situated. Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe - The Classic Book Examining Flat Earth Theory and Doctrine (Hardcover) (Hardback)

Zetetic Astronomy by Samuel Birley Rowbotham