#ZETETIC ASTRONOMY IN PRO#
#ZETETIC ASTRONOMY IN LICENSE#

If you ever have to debate the flat earth pro or con, this book is a complete agenda of each point that youвЂ™ll have to argue. Zetetic Astronomy is a key work of flat-earth thought, just as DonnellyвЂ™s Atlantis, the Antediluvian World is still considered required reading on the subject of Atlantis.

#ZETETIC ASTRONOMY IN LICENSE#

As far as I can see this is simply a license to employ circular reasoning (e.g., the earth is flat, hence we can see distant lighthouses, hence the earth is flat). To make his system work he had to throw out a great deal of science, including the scientific method itself, using instead what he calls a вЂZeteticвЂ™ method. If the Copernican theory so adequately explains planetary motions, why discard it, and what would he use in its place? What is the sun orbiting around once a day and how does it work like a spotlight, not a вЂpoint sourceвЂ™? If the moon is self-luminous, what creates its phases? If gravity appears to work here on earth, why doesnвЂ™t it apply to the celestial objects just a few hundred miles up? Rowbotham never adequately explains his alternative astronomy. He attacks the concept of a plurality of worlds because no other world than this one is mentioned in the Bible. He uses Ussherian Biblical chronology to mock the concept that stars could be millions of light years away. Heaven is not a state of mind, it is a real place, somewhere above us. Hell is exactly as advertised, directly below us. Zetetic cosmology is вЂfaith-basedвЂ™, based, that is, on a literal interpretation of selected Biblical quotes. Eclipses can be explained by some unknown object occulting the sun or moon. The moon is both self-illuminated and semi-transparent. The sun orbits the north pole once a day at a constant altitude. The Zetetic Sun, moon, planets and stars are all only a few hundred miles above the surface of the earth. I think that by the 19th century people would have noticed if Australia and Africa were thousands of miles further apart than expected, let alone if Africa was wider than it was long! The Zetetic map has a severly squashed South America and Africa, and Australia and New Zealand in the middle of the Pacific. Figure 54 inadvertantly illustrates this problem. The polar projection of the flat earth creates obvious discrepancies with known geography, particularly the farther south you go. 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 contients float on an infinite ocean which somehow has a layer of fire underneath it. Rowbotham believed that the earth is flat. Rowbotham hints at the incident in this book. The judge ruled against Hampton, who started a long campaign of legal harassment of Wallace. An experiment which Hampden proposed didnвЂ™t resolve the issue, and the two ended up in court in 1876. He later expanded this into the book Earth Not a Globe, proposing the Earth is a flat disc centred at the North Pole and bounded. Based on conclusions derived from the Bedford Level experiment, Rowbotham published a pamphlet titled Zetetic Astronomy. One of them, John Hampden, got involved in a bet with the famous naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace about the flat earth. Modern flat Earth belief originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham (18161884). Rowbotham was an accomplished debater who reputedly steamrollered all opponents, and his followers, who included many well-educated people, were equally tenacious. The third edition of 1881 (which had inflated to 430 pages) was used as the basis of this etext. This book, in which he lays out his world system, went through three editions, starting with a 16 page pamphlet published in 1849 and a second edition of 221 pages published in 1865.

Rowbotham created a Zetetic Society in England and New York, shipping over a thousand copies of Zetetic Astronomy.Samuel Birley Rowbotham, under the pseudonym вЂParallaxвЂ™, lectured for two decades up and down Britain promoting his unique flat earth theory. Winship gained attention in debates with leading scientists such as Alfred Russel Wallace. He also published a leaflet titled 'The Inconsistency of Modern Astronomy and its Opposition to the Scriptures!!', which argued that the Bible, alongside our senses, supported the idea that the earth was flat and immovable and this essential truth should not be set aside for a system based solely on human conjecture. He later expanded into a book Earth Not a Globe, proposing the Earth is a flat disc centered at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, Antarctica, with the Sun and Moon 3,000 miles and the 'cosmos' 3,100 miles above Earth. Based on conclusions derived from the Bedford Level experiment, Rowbotham published Zetetic Astronomy. Modern flat Earth hypotheses originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham (1816вЂ“1884).

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