Based on conclusions derived from the Bedford Level experiment, Rowbotham published a pamphlet Zetetic Astronomy. Modern flat Earth belief originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham (–). Impressed by Rowbotham’s writings, particularly the Zetetic Astronomy works, Shenton soon became a flat Earth convert, and began constructing ideas to develop his own cosmology, based partly on the Zetetic Society writings and partly on his own interpretation of the Book of Genesis.ĭropping out of school at the earliest opportunity he enjoyed lecturing about the flat Earth to youth. Following Rowbotham's death inhis friend Lady Elizabeth Blount founded the Universal Zetetic Society, which was comprised of people committed to the belief that the Earth is flat/5(40). Today, Zetetic Astronomy both as a book and a movement lives on. 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 /5(27). Based on conclusions derived from the Bedford Level experiment, Rowbotham published Zetetic Astronomy. Modern flat Earth hypotheses originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham (–).
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