He toured around England, claiming that the earth was a stationary disk and the sun was only 400 miles away. Parallax is an assumed pseudonym of an English inventor, Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884), who founded the new school named 'Zetetic Astronomy,' derived from the Greek word zētētikós meaning skeptic.

The Portuguese explorer Fernando de Magallanes (1480-1521) said that the church believes in the flatness of the earth, but he said, 'I saw its shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.' The rise of scientific rationalism seemed to undermine the bible's authority, and thinking Christians decided to create an attack on what was established by science. Early Societal Claims About the Earth Shape In the same year, eminent scientist Stephen Jay Gould wrote that 'there was never a period of 'flat earth obscurity' among scholars.' Gould added that in the Greek knowledge of sphericity, the 'concept' was never displayed, including that all medieval scholars accepted the roundness of the planet as a fact in cosmology. Garwood's claim contradicted Jeffrey Burton Russell's words in 1997, saying that 'no educated person in the history of Western civilization from the third century believed that the earth was flat.' In her book ' Flat Earth: The Story of an Infamous Idea,' author Christine Garwood believes that it is a 'fallacy of history' from Antiquity of Darkness believed that the earth is flat and was only fooled by Christopher Columbus as he reached America without falling on the corners of the world.

The image popularly known by the term 'earthrise' is the globe and the most famous image taken from outer space to support the fact that the earth is not flat. Modern society treats the flat earth as a conspiracy theory that leads people to the cliff of their minds, and most people believe that there is enough evidence of the earth being spherical however, despite all the logic, there are a large number of people who assert that the blue planet is flat. Recently, the argument of the planet earth's being flat has risen and taken the spotlight flat-earthers believe that the government spreads misinformation to the masses so they will believe the opposite of their claim.

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