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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).
 
  
==Quotes==
 
 
{{cite2|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 space boundless in extent
 
and illimitable in duration; the whole of 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}}
 
 
 
[[Category:Historical Figures]]
 

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