Earth Not a Globe! (eBook)

"Zetetic Astronomy - Earth Not a Globe! 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" (They liked really long titles back in the 19th century) by Dr. Samuel Rowbotham was the most famous and influential flat Earth book of its time. Here it is in its entirety:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/

Thanks for this link. I looked in the last part XV, List of Works and could not find this ref. I found after reading a ref. in another old book about these words: "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that "stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:   All I knew was that it was somewhere in Isaiah. After reading  I found it. ( Isaiah 40:22 ) I believe some versions may have the word "Disc" involved. Just an interesting reference, I don't have an Iron in the fire here.

hey all, just cracked open [& smelled] my new copy of S. B. Rowbotham’s “Zetetic Astronomy” (1849~1881), & wanted to say first, thanks to Mr. Dubay for blazing this trail & introducing me/us to so many great resources — truly, imagining how i thought just a couple years ago to today is refreshing

i’ll start this thread w/ a quote from the book:

“To think honestly, then, is to think freely; freedom and honesty of thought are truly but interchangeable terms. For how can he think honestly, who dreads his being landed in this or that conclusion? Such an one has already predetermined in his heart how he shall think, and what he shall believe. Perfect truth, like perfect love, casteth out fear.”

super excited for this one(!!)

RileySlowWave wrote:hey all, just cracked open [& smelled] my new copy of S. B. Rowbotham’s “Zetetic Astronomy” (1849~1881), & wanted to say first, thanks to Mr. Dubay for blazing this trail & introducing me/us to so many great resources — truly, imagining how i thought just a couple years ago to today is refreshing

i’ll start this thread w/ a quote from the book:

“To think honestly, then, is to think freely; freedom and honesty of thought are truly but interchangeable terms. For how can he think honestly, who dreads his being landed in this or that conclusion? Such an one has already predetermined in his heart how he shall think, and what he shall believe. Perfect truth, like perfect love, casteth out fear.”

super excited for this one(!!)

yo, this book is something special; something like the ‘holy grail’ of flat-Earth research [along w/ all the other wonderful & brilliant research that’s been & continues to be done]

it stands out, method-first(!!!) [the Zetetic approach], & proceeds from evidence to conclusion in a way that is SO refreshing

practically out the gate, it PROVES the curve is a farce using the Bedford Level experiment(s); even admitting a ‘gotcha’ moment that becomes explainable w/ a bend in the water, thus fully satisfying to the reader

i skipped ahead & read a few standouts:

1) Tides: talk about a mind-boggler

he shows that, in effect, the evidence demonstrates that the Earth plane is actually FLOATING on water, which he elucidates to be calm & peaceful under the surface chaos [even in the worst storms, dive down X distance & it’s serene & ‘still’]

he shows that the ebb & flood tides are irregular & variable everywhere, in part due to the splish-splashing effect of colliding waves & dynamic weather/pressure

he shows how silly the notion of lunar cause to their primary effect to be, for many reasons, & notes that if they have any relationship it can be deduced later

astonishing was the experiment showing a telescope pointed at Polaris, which rises & falls in ~12 hour cycles, which is the proof for the plane itself floating [that water is practically uncondensible], although our atmosphere is pressurized

2) nightfall in southern extremes: using mariner logs, he shows simply that during January to February, where we’re told 24 hr sun exists, people reported darkness around 9pm & sunrise around 4am, w/ the days becoming perceptibly shorter in February

so yea, wanted to overflow some excitement into this thread — this book is worth having(!!)

plenty to learn & know

actually, what causes the ‘great deep’ to rise & fall is still a mystery to me — comments welcome

still working through this great tome: today i hit/found a payload w/ his plane trigonometric calculations of solar distance as well as stars

going off memory, he states the sun to be between 400-700 miles above us; & the stars to be ~1000 miles

this made me happy, as i’d been struggling to believe the ~3000 mile distances i’d been hearing; thinking it had to be less

he says the diameter of the plane is around 10,400 miles

anecdotally, i shudder/cringe when thinking about relaying wrong/misinfo to people(!!) & try to rectify that… such is the learning process

Hey all, had the big idea to use spreadsheets to graph/chart depths & heights; which I'll share:



I used 3 oceans, 3 seas, 3 central continent points, 3 tall mountains; then some celestial objects.



This one gives a visual of their lowest, average, & highest points.



The final image here is a scaled model of the deepest oceans along w/ tallest mountains up to stars (using Rowbotham's 1000 mile estimation).

I collected these into a PDF, which is available here: http://flateartheducation.com/images/Height-Depth-Research.pdf

Lastly, I estimated the moon's altitude by halving the sun's, figuring that was probably close; I might update this w/ the planets for funsies...