Samuel Rowbotham

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    About Samuel Rowbotham

    Samuel Rowbotham, known as Parallax, was an English inventor, writer, and utopian socialist who proposed a flat Earth model in Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe. He believed the Earth was a disc centered at the North Pole, surrounded by a wall of ice, with celestial bodies moving just thousands of miles above.

    Samuel Rowbotham 's Area of Expertise

    Flat Earth theory, zetetic astronomy, inventions, utopian socialism, pseudoscience

    My simple pleasures

    A quiet evening with a good book, a successful experiment, and the company of like-minded individuals discussing the mysteries of the universe.