zetetic

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The Universal Zetetic Society sputtered out but was revived under different names over the years—in 1956, 1972, and 2004.

From The New Yorker

The modern case for a flat Earth derives largely from “Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe,” a book published, in 1865, by a smooth-talking English inventor and religious fundamentalist named Samuel Rowbotham.

From The New Yorker

In 1884, Henry Ossipoff Wolfson, a former secretary of the Zetetic Society, wrote a scathing exposé on his “old friend.”

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Rowbotham’s ideas gained traction, and when he died, in 1884, his followers formed the Universal Zetetic Society.

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Zetetic, zē-tet′ik, adj. proceeding by inquiry.—n. a seeker, the name taken by some of the Pyrrhonists.

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