> [!infobox] <s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 2 topics, 1 source</em></s> #### <s class="topic-title">[[Samuel Rowbotham]]</s> > [!wikipedia] [Samuel Rowbotham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Rowbotham) > > Samuel Birley Rowbotham (; 1816 – 23 December 1884, in London) was an English inventor, writer and utopian socialist who wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe under the pseudonym Parallax. His work was originally published as a 16-page pamphlet (1849), and later expanded into a book (1865). > > Rowbotham's method, which he called zetetic astronomy, models the Earth as a flat disc centered at the North Pole and bounded along its perimeter by a wall of ice, with the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars moving only several thousand miles above the surface of Earth. > Rowbotham was:: a [[Flat Earthers|Flat Earther]] and referred to belief in a flat earth as a form of [[Zeteticism]]. ^[[[video - Flat Earth Science -- Wrong, but not Stupid#History]]] ##### ^dataviews > [!dataview]+ Related unlinked notes > > No results to show for list query. > [!dataview]- Other unlinked mentions > > - [[video - Flat Earth Science -- Wrong, but not Stupid]]