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Samuel Rowbotham
English writer who, under the pen name 'Parallax', published the 1849 pamphlet 'Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe' (expanded to a book in 1865), founding the modern flat-Earth movement.
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Samuel Rowbotham popularised Flat Earth Claim.
Organisations & Programmes
Samuel Rowbotham influenced Flat Earth Society — His 1849/1865 Zetetic Astronomy and the Universal Zetetic Society that followed his death directly inspired Shenton's 1956 revival.