<p>2017 Reprint of 1865 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. <em>Zetetic Astronomy</em> is a key work of flat-earth thought, just as Donnelly's <em>Atlantis, the Antediluvian World</em> is still considered required reading on the subject of Atlantis. If you ever have to debate the flat earth pro or con, this book is a complete agenda of each point that you'll have to argue. Rowbotham believed that the earth is flat. The continents float on an infinite ocean which somehow has a layer of fire underneath it. The lands we know are surrounded by an infinite wilderness of ice and snow, beyond the Antarctic Ocean, bordered by an immense circular ice-cliff. What we call the North Pole is in the center of the earth.</p>