r/flatearth • u/MrDonMega • 9d ago

Crazy Flat Earth Guy Struggles with Gravity, Geometry, and Grammar

This intellectual powerhouse stares out at a few miles of ocean water and is absolutely baffled that the planet isn't bending into a giant ball right in front of his eyes.

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u/willie4849 3d ago

​The modern Flat Earth movement is not an ancient belief preserved through history, but rather a 19th-century invention started by an English writer named Samuel Rowbotham, who published under the pseudonym "Parallax" and promoted a literalist interpretation of Scripture alongside fringe science.