His work was originally published as a 16-page pamphlet (1849), and later expanded into a book (1865).
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Here is a sample list of organizations that praised him for his research (the end of the book contains what exactly they had to say), Wilts Independent, Liverpool Mercury, Athlone Sentinel, Westmeath Independent, Preston Guardian, Leicester Chronicle, Norfolk Herald, Yarmouth Free Press, Cambridge Chronicle, Croydon Chronicle, Leicestershire Mercury, and South Mid-land Free Press. Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884) wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe under the pseudonym Parallax. Parallax dedicated his life to this research and while he was alive, he eagerly debated and presented his ideas. Instead, he approached each objection with a high level of reasoning and rationale to rival the great philosophers of old. An experimental inquiry into the true figure of the earth, proving it a plane, without orbital or axial motion, and the only known material world its true position in the universe, comparatively recent formation, present chemical condition, and approaching.
A Universal Zetetic Society was created to spread the word of Samuel Rowbotham and eventually became the Flat Earth Society in 1956. Both a gentleman and a scholar, he did not rely on the tactics of name-calling or belittling an idea, as the intelligentsia of today is so quick to do. Zetetic Astronomy was founded by Samuel Rowbotham and the Zetetic approach began to gain traction by his followers after his death in 1884. He spared no expense in his search of the truth and it shows not only in his experiments buts also in his examinations for the so-called “proofs” of earth’s rotundity (second half of the book). Having read the entirety of the book, I must admit that Parallax’s style of writing is satisfying to read as it is informative.
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