The UZS was active well into the early part of the 20th century, publishing many issues of a magazine titled The Earth Not a Globe Review. It was founded shortly after the death of Samuel Rowbotham (aka Parallax) by Rowbotham's adherents. The Universal Zetetic Society (UZS) was the precursor to the Flat Earth Society. an experimental inquiry into the true figure of the earth, by 'Parallax'.Īuthor. Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that’s often difficult to discover. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. 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, miles and the "cosmos" 3, miles above Earth. 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 along its southern edge by a wall of ice, Antarctica.īased on conclusions derived from the Bedford Level experiment, Rowbotham published Zetetic Astronomy.
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 (–). ***Completely revised version of the original 1904 edition*** The hypothesis of a universal force called Gravitation is based upon, and was indeed invented with a view to support another hypothesis, namely, that the earth and sea together make up a vast globe, whirling away through space, and therefore needing some force or forces to guide it in its mad career, and so control it as to make it conform to what is called its annual orbit round the sun! The theory first of all makes the earth to be a globe then not a perfect globe, but an oblate spheroid, flattened at the 'poles' then more oblate, until it was in danger of becoming so flattened that it would be like a cheese and, passing over minor variations of form, we are finally told that the earth is pear-shaped, and that the 'elipsoid has been replaced by an apoid!' What shape it may assume next we cannot tell it will depend upon the whim or fancy of some astute and speculating 'scientist.Reprint of Second Edition.
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