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Writing as Parallax, Samuel Birley Rowbotham argued in this 1865 book that the earth is a flat plane with no spin or orbit and is the only material world in the universe. The title page calls it an experimental inquiry, and the opening explains that the word zetetic comes from a Greek verb meaning to search or examine. Its fourteen sections take up the distance of the sun and stars, day and night, the seasons, eclipses and tides, and close with a summary. Modern astronomy rejects these claims, and the book remains a record of Victorian flat-earth argument.
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