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For months now, flat-earthers have come and gone on CI having selectively quoted from the following historical text but never providing any copy of the whole thing. Why do you suppose that might be?
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[Entered at Stationer's Hall.]
ZETETIC ASTRONOMY.
EARTH NOT A GLOBE!
AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY
INTO THE
T R U E F I G U R E O F T H E E A R T H :
P R O V I N G I T A P L A N E,
WITHOUT AXIAL OR ORBITAL MOTION;
AND THE
ONLY MATERIAL WORLD
IN
THE UNIVERSE
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B Y "P A R A L L A X."
LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT
BATH :
S HAYWARD, GREEN STREET STREET.
1865
[The Right of Translation is Reserved by the Author.]
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So what's all the secrecy about? What are you guys trying to hide this time? Ashamed of something, eh? Something like too many facts get in the way of your nefarious agenda? Eh? Or, if not, then why would you never provide the whole thing? There must be some reason....................... (Download the Attachment below)
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Without even turning to the first page, the title alone is a joke.
Experimental inquiry, is it? So we should be able to expect lots of DATA to test a HYPOTHESIS, correct?
Or, when the demigod Robotham says "experimental inquiry" is he perhaps not speaking about anything experimental?
Nor would it be an inquiry?
Perhaps this is the model that flat-earthers today are using for their screwy contortions of non-logic?
Perhaps there are numerous obvious incorrect things to be found in the book?
Perhaps too many flat-earthers haven't actually read the book but rely solely on select quotes provided by their mentors?
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This ought to be interesting, for example, how many flat-earth posts in this thread will seek to change the topic?
How many times will Ladislaus for example chime in with his "compelling" video that has nothing to do with this conversation?
BTW try to remember, when Ladislaus says somethingi is "compelling," he means to say that, he doesn't understand it.
And it fooled him.
Nor does he want to understand it. Ignorance is bliss should be his middle name.
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So -- this purports to PROVE that the earth is a PLANE!!
Let me guess where that happens --------------------- Never.
DING DING DING --- WE HAVE A WINNER
And -- that the earth is "the only material world."
Really? So when radio spectrographs are used to read light from a blast furnace in Philly at point-blank range, and from Alpha Centauri at 1.34 parsecs distant, the two can be objectively compared but we must say this "proves" there is no material in Alpha Centauri? Hmmmm....
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Could it be that Samuel himself gleaned these principles from the Bible via his own personal interpretation since he was a Protestant? Hmmmmmmmmmm..............
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Question asked:
Why is the flat earth theory so popular today?
(It's not a "theory.")
Answer given by:
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Theodore Kefalopoulos, Electrical Engineer
Mar 13, 2017
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Many BS ideas are popular nowadays and the reason is simple. With the expansion of the Internet, it's not only the real knowledge that was spread and became available to everyone on the planet. The world’s stupidity found a chance to get bolstered. Uneducated people found one another and perpetuated their idiotic beliefs. Before Internet this wasn't so easy. Now their standards of evidence are satisfied by watching videos of like-minded conspiracists. This is why we should not ignore stupid ideas but challenge them at every chance. Because if they are left unchecked they will spread everywhere.
By providing resistance to stupid beliefs and idiotic ideas even though they may be growing in popularity, the inane and ridiculous responses our well-framed challenges receive from committed flat-earthers become a record of their manifest obstreperous nescience.
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