Who thought the earth was flat?

In May 2018, Flat Earth truther Gerrard Gallacher from Grimsby, UK, was turned away from several bookmakers after trying to place a £100 bet on the Earth being flat. Gallacher claimed that bookmakers "knew he was right" and therefore would not accept his wager. read more

Rowbotham concluded that the earth must be flat, or it is more likely that he already thought this and this experiment proved his thesis, at least to his satisfaction. Rowbotham, using a pseudonym, published his results in a pamphlet titled Zetetic Astronomy in 1849, which he expanded into a book in 1865. read more

The American chemist John William Draper wrote a History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1874), employing the claim that the early Church fathers thought the Earth was flat as evidence of the hostility of the Church to the advancement of science. read more