Other flat-earthers were active during this time, William Carpenter wrote One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is not a Globe in about 1885. In around 1870, Hampden bet with naturalist Alfred Wallace on the outcome of a test of the flatness of water in the Old Bedford Canal, and both sides tried the test to confirm their views, and flat-earthers still assert that water surfaces have been proven to be flat. John Hampden (1819-1891) founded the Truth-seekers Oracle and Scriptural Science Review in about 1876 and promoted the flat earth idea in England. His major work was Earth Not a Globe which was written around 1849. He is a well-known historical figure and wrote under many pseudonyms like Tryon, S. Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884), a 19th-century religious fundamentalist, promoted the flat earth philosophy. Zetetic methods flourished in England around 1800, meaning Zetetic is seeker or skeptic, and flat-earthers took this name to symbolize their views of the shape of the Earth.
In the Zetetic view, the perception that Earth is flat leads to the result that it must be flat. This theory is called The Zetetic Method, an alternative to the scientific method developed by a 19th-century flat-earther, in which sensory observations reign supreme. On the video, he said that he recorded a 23-minute and 45-second time-lapse, which by those measurements, means the plane traveled a little over 203 miles. He said that when he drives from Florida to California, “it’s flat to me.” Though, Shaq later said he was kidding.Ī YouTuber like Marble posted a video on YouTube in 2017 and said that he brought a spirit level aboard a flight from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Seattle, Washington, to see whether the plane’s nose would dip to compensate for the curvature of the world, he said. I didn’t wanna believe it either.”įormer NBA player Shaquille O’Neal proclaimed in a podcast that aired around 2017 that our home planet is flat. Once, the rapper tweeted “No matter how high in elevation you are.
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