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A telescope was employed, through which it was clearly and unmistakably perceived that the center stave was five feet above the line of the telescope, which at once proved that the Earth was not flat, but oval.” This is a testament to the Flat Earthers’ persistence even in the face of facts.Īfter Rowbotham’s death his followers formed the Universal Zetetic Society. Hampden conducted a test, “three long staves of equal length were placed on the Bedford Canal, another was placed at a distance of three miles, and the third also placed at the same distance. John Hampden, a follower of Rowbotham, made a wager against William Wallace to prove that the Earth was flat. Rowbotham and his followers gained popularity and momentum in the late nineteenth century through a series of debates about the Earth’s shape. Samuel Rowbotham went on to establish the Zetetic Society and he sent copies of Zetetic Astronomy to its members in New York and England. What we call the North Pole is in the center of the earth.” Rowbotham supported his claim in Zetetic Astronomy through a series of experiments that yielded apparently-conclusive data that the Earth is, in fact, flat.

Rowbotham wrote and published Zetetic Astronomy: The Earth Not A Globe under the pseudonym Parallax, in which he claims, “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. The theory of a flat Earth stems from the ideologies of the prominent nineteenth-century inventor and writer Samuel Rowbotham. The connection that Mark Sargent draws between the world of Truman Burbank and the world we live in today is frightening to say the least, but it articulates his perception about the world in which we live and the people that occupy positions of power.

His entire life was a carefully manufactured and manipulated narrative carried out by the show’s producer. In a 2018 documentary, Mark Sargent, a prominent figure in the Flat Earth Society, stated that, “we are living in a structure, in a planetarium, a terrarium, a Hollywood backlot, like the Truman Show.” The Truman Show was a 1998 film about a man who discovers that every aspect of his life, from childhood to adulthood, was filmed for a television show. It is the twenty-first century, and some people still believe the Earth is flat.