![]() Today’s flat Earthers employ a variety of methods to support their beliefs, poring over footage from spacecraft and performing experiments with everything from powerful lasers to high-end cameras in pursuit of incontrovertible evidence that the earth doesn’t curve. The modern flat-Earth movement has its origins in 19th century England, according to Garwood, popularized by writer Samuel Rowbotham, who performed an experiment watching boats travel down the Thames River that he said proved the Earth had no curvature. Though ancient societies believed Earth was flat, the idea of a spherical Earth was familiar to the ancient Greeks, according to “Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea" by Christine Garwood. ![]()
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