So, reading about people who think that the Sun and the Moon are 2500 miles away, gravity doesn't exist, trying to support their theory with extremely non-sensical and completely made-up calculations, when the logic behind everything we know thanks to thousands of research by great minds is plain and simple, and claim that we are sheeps who trust the government or some strange conspiracy theory makes me loose any kind of faith I could have in umanity. I have a big, BIG passion for astronomy, since I was like 4, I was always affascinated by the mistery of the universe and the fact that many things that seems really tough to understand had a logical and satisfying answer when there wasn't one, no problem: we had some theory we are working on, will see how it will turn out! Really, I've heard many crazy beliefs and conspiracy theories but this one is mindblowingly stupid and reading Youtube comment sections (and many other sites) and seeing how many people defend this craziness is ridicolous. This a debate that in these days is quite prominent because of the B.o.B.

The belief lacked representation after JohnsonРІР‚в„ўs death in 2001, until the name was reclaimed in 2004 by Johnson's self-proclaimed successor 'Daniel Shenton' (likely a reference to Samuel Shenton), a man claiming to live in Hong Kong.Р”В¬lick to expand. Johnson, who based the organization in his home town of Lancaster, California. The International Flat Earth Research Society (IFERS), the first Flat Earth society organization, was founded by Englishman Samuel Shenton in 1956 and was later led by American Charles K. A flat Earth journal, Earth: a Monthly Magazine of Sense and Science, was published between 1901РІР‚вЂњ1904, edited by Lady Blount. The society published a magazine, The Earth Not a Globe Review, and remained active well into the early 20th century.

Rowbotham created a Zetetic Society in England and New York, shipping over a thousand copies of Zetetic Astronomy.Р”Р„fter Rowbotham's death, Lady Elizabeth Blount, wife of explorer Sir Walter de Sodington Blount, established a Universal Zetetic Society, whose objective was 'the propagation of knowledge related to Natural Cosmgony in confirmation of the Holy Scriptures, based on practical scientific investigation'. One such debate, involving Alfred Russel Wallace, concerned the Bedford Level experiment (and later led to several lawsuits for fraud and libel). Rowbotham and followers like William Carpenter, who continued the belief, gained attention by successful use of pseudoscience in public debates with leading scientists of the day. He also published a leaflet entitled 'The inconsistency of Modern Astronomy and its Opposition to the Scriptures!!', which argued that the 'Bible, alongside our senses, supported the idea that the earth was flat and immovable and this essential truth should not be set aside for a system based solely on human conjecture'.

Based on his conclusions derived from the Bedford Level Experiment, Rowbotham published a 16-page pamphlet, Zetetic Astronomy, which he later expanded into a 430-page book, Earth Not a Globe, in which the Earth is a flat disc centred at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice (Antarctica), with the Sun and Moon 3,000 miles (4,800 km) and the 'cosmos' 3,100 miles (5,000 km) above Earth. Modern flat Earth hypotheses originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham(1816РІР‚вЂњ1884).

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