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| − | '''Thomas Winship''' (aka '''Rectangle''') was a South African author and Flat Earth advocate working in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. His best known work is ''Zetetic Cosmogony; or Conclusive Evidence that the World is not a Rotating Revolving Globe but a Stationary Plane Circle'' (1899).
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| − | {{cite2|Modern astronomical teaching affirms that the world we live
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| − | brain-reeling rates of speed; that the Sun is a million and a half
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| − | miles distant from it; that the moon is about a quarter the size of
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| − | earth; that it receives all its light from the Sun, and is thus only a
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| − | earth and thus causes the tides; that the stars are worlds and Suns,
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| − | being subject to, and supported by, universal gravitation, the
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| − | To fanciful minds and theoretical speculators, the so-called
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| − | the building up of a complicated conjuration of absurdities such as
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