I have been reading over this site for the last few months (with great enjoyment) and have seen Earth Not a Globe (ENaG) referenced as the foundational work for FE theory. While trolling around on wikipedia I came across S. Rowbotham's write up.
Question: Were any active flat earthers involved in the creation/and or maintenance of Rowbotham's wiki? Is there anything in his wiki article that is disputed by the FE community?
I ask this because the article is short and says nothing of its subject's education or religion. It does, however, accuse him of "sexual misconduct" and using aliases to sell fallacious medical products including a "life-preserving cylindrical railway carriage". Based on his wiki he seems to be a classic, 19th century snake-oil salesman with a talent for debate. This is not the resume of someone who claims to overturn centuries of peer-reviewed research by men with names like Laplace, Newton and Copernicus.
As an aside I think that all our models of the universe have been flawed and will eventually be overlaid with a more thorough model that answers some of the questions raised by the preceding theories while opening questions of its own. The FE model is a valid model that works well over small land areas and where engineering or observational precision is not critical. For example, building a single family home. The construction of a skyscraper or modeling the solar system is much simpler with a RET and Newtonian physics. I have enjoyed reading threads where FErs are trying to explain phenomena that RET explained half a millennium ago with lasting precision. Forge on FErs.