"Zetetic Astronomy" is an 1881 treatise by Samuel Birley Rowbotham.
This volume will appeal to those with an interest in Flat Earth theory, and it is not to be.
According to Rowbotham, the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars are only a few hundred miles above the Earth.
He is most famous "Zetetic Astronomy", an idea that the Earth is not spherical, but an enclosed Plane centred at the North Pole and encircled by a wall of ice.
Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816 - 1884) was an English writer and inventor. "Zetetic Astronomy" is an 1881 treatise by Samuel Birley Rowbotham