![]() ![]() As a reasoner we much question if 'Parallax' can be surpassed and the gentlemanly manner in which the discussions are conducted brought out that power to a very high degree. Seldom does one read such striking lessons on the art of reasoning as are afforded by this book. ![]() 'Parallax,' as a writer, as a sound logician, clear, lucid reasoner, calm and self-possessed, has not been surpassed. ![]() Inasmuch as this system of the world differs in every point of view from our own study of astronomy, and from all previous teachings on the subject, there must be a great error on one side or the other. According to Rowbotham's method, which he called Zetetic Astronomy, the earth is an enclosed plane, centered at the North Pole he seems to prove modern astronomy unreasonable and contradictory-that the earth is a plane, or a disc, and not a globe-the sun, moon, and stars, self-luminous. His work was based on his decade-long studies of the earth and was originally published as a 16-page pamphlet (1849), which he later expanded into a 430-page book (1881). Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816–1884) was an English inventor and writer who wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe under the pseudonym "Parallax". ![]()
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