Samuel Rowbotham

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1816 – 1884

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Who was Samuel Rowbotham?

Samuel Birley Rowbotham was an English inventor and writer who wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe under the pseudonym "Parallax". His work was based on his decade-long studies of the earth and was originally published as a 16-page pamphlet, which he later expanded into a 430 page book. According to Rowbotham's 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.

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Born
1816
Nationality
  • England
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Died
Dec 23, 1884
London

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on July 23, 2013

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