2017 Reprint of 1865 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  Zetetic Astronomy is a key work of flat-earth thought, just as Donnelly's Atlantis, the Antediluvian World is still considered required reading on the subject of Atlantis.  If you ever have to debate the flat earth pro or con, this book is a complete agenda of each point that you'll have to argue.  Rowbotham believed that the earth is flat. The continents float on an infinite ocean which somehow has a layer of fire underneath it. The lands we know are surrounded by an infinite wilderness of ice and snow, beyond the Antarctic Ocean, bordered by an immense circular ice-cliff. What we call the North Pole is in the center of the earth.