The flat earth society came to america (inherited from the british founder) around the 60’s (if memory serves). Flat earth, as a movement / subject of interest can be traced into the 1800’s and as a general christian/jewish/biblical worldview for millennia.
The guy who started the american chapter with his australian wife have a sad story ending in a fire and the loss of all their flat earth society periodicals/issues/materials.
> The guy who started the american chapter with his australian wife have a sad story ending in a fire and the loss of all their flat earth society periodicals/issues/materials.
It came from a research paper by a professor / phd from lock haven university. I highly recommend all of his articles/papers on the subject and related topics - sadly they have been scrubbed from the original hosts... Good scholarship on such a “verboten” subject is apparently forbidden :(
The flat earth society came to america (inherited from the british founder) around the 60’s (if memory serves). Flat earth, as a movement / subject of interest can be traced into the 1800’s and as a general christian/jewish/biblical worldview for millennia.
The guy who started the american chapter with his australian wife have a sad story ending in a fire and the loss of all their flat earth society periodicals/issues/materials.
> The guy who started the american chapter with his australian wife have a sad story ending in a fire and the loss of all their flat earth society periodicals/issues/materials.
when? link?
https://web.archive.org/web/20160307214926/http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm
This is a better recounting of the story - an article from science digest, where the dr got his details found in the other link i sent you.
It reports the fire as happening late in 1995.
ty!
It came from a research paper by a professor / phd from lock haven university. I highly recommend all of his articles/papers on the subject and related topics - sadly they have been scrubbed from the original hosts... Good scholarship on such a “verboten” subject is apparently forbidden :(
https://web.archive.org/web/20160309073359/http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/flat/flateart.htm