Further work could include transferring the body of this document to a machine-readable format so as to allow for it to be searched and interpreted freely. Bringing it back to public access where it rightfully belongs is a substantial achievement for our Society. Previously, this resource was only accessible on microfilm in a small amount of high-profile libraries around the plane, many of which are only available to researchers. According to Rowbothams scientific method, which he called Zetetic Astronomy. To those not in the know, this pamphlet was Rowbotham's first attempt at laying down his model of the Flat Earth, which has then been expanded into the much more thorough book Earth Not a Globe. Samuel Birley Rowbotham (AKA Parallax) (1816 1884), was an English medical doctor and inventor who wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe, based on his decades-long scientific studies of the earth, published a 16-page pamphlet (1849), which he later expanded into a 430 page book (1881) expounding his views. 8, 1848 by Samuel Rowbotham is now available for your reading pleasure at our library. After entirely too long a time (I've been working on this on and off since August 2014), it is my pleasure to announce that a copy of the original 1849 pamphlet Zetetic Astronomy : a description of several experiments which prove that the surface of the sea is a perfect plane and that the earth is not a globe! : being the substance of a paper read before the Royal Astronomical Society on the evening of Dec.
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