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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).
 
'''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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==Quotes==
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{{cite2|Modern astronomical teaching affirms that the world we live
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on is a globe, which rotates, revolves and spins away in space at
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brain-reeling rates of speed; that the Sun is a million and a half
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times the volume of the earth-globe, and nearly a hundred million
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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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reflector, and not a giver of light; that it attracts the body of the
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earth and thus causes the tides; that the stars are worlds and Suns,
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some of them equal in importance to our own Sun himself, and
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others vastly his superior; that these worlds, inhabited by sentient
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beings, are without numbers and occupy s ace boundless in extent
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and illimitable in duration; the whole op these interlaced bodies
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being subject to, and supported by, universal gravitation, the
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foundation and father of the whole fabric.
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To fanciful minds and theoretical speculators, the so-called
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‘science’ of modern astronomy furnishes a field, unsurpassed in
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any science for the unrestrained license of the imagination, and
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the building up of a complicated conjuration of absurdities such as
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to overawe the simpleton and make him gape with wonder; to
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deceive even those who truly believe their assumptions to be
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facts.”|Thomas Winship, ”Zetetic Cosmogony”}}
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Revision as of 17:16, 25 June 2020

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).

Quotes

  “ Modern astronomical teaching affirms that the world we live on is a globe, which rotates, revolves and spins away in space at brain-reeling rates of speed; that the Sun is a million and a half times the volume of the earth-globe, and nearly a hundred million miles distant from it; that the moon is about a quarter the size of earth; that it receives all its light from the Sun, and is thus only a reflector, and not a giver of light; that it attracts the body of the earth and thus causes the tides; that the stars are worlds and Suns, some of them equal in importance to our own Sun himself, and others vastly his superior; that these worlds, inhabited by sentient beings, are without numbers and occupy s ace boundless in extent and illimitable in duration; the whole op these interlaced bodies being subject to, and supported by, universal gravitation, the foundation and father of the whole fabric.

To fanciful minds and theoretical speculators, the so-called ‘science’ of modern astronomy furnishes a field, unsurpassed in any science for the unrestrained license of the imagination, and the building up of a complicated conjuration of absurdities such as to overawe the simpleton and make him gape with wonder; to deceive even those who truly believe their assumptions to be facts.” ”
                  —Thomas Winship, ”Zetetic Cosmogony”