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Modern flat Earth belief originated with the English writer
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(1816–1884). Based on conclusions derived from his 1838
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, Rowbotham published the 1849
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titled
Zetetic Astronomy, writing under the pseudonym "Parallax". He later expanded this into the book
Earth Not a Globe, proposing the Earth is a flat disc centred at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, . Rowbotham further held that the and were 3,000 miles (4,800 km) above Earth and that the "cosmos" was 3,100 miles (5,000 km) above the Earth. He also published a leaflet titled
The Inconsistency of Modern Astronomy and its Opposition to the Scriptures, which argued that the ", alongside our senses, supported the idea that the earth was flat and immovable and this essential truth should not be set aside for a system based solely on human conjecture".