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From Pat Deveney's database:
Zetetic, The.
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The title of the journal means a skeptic, or a person who proceeds by investigation and experiment -- in this case with regard to inquiries about the supposed curvature of the earth. This was a product of the wager in
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The Zetetic is a flat-earth paper in the Rowbotham 'zetetic astronomy' lineage: its cosmology puts a central magnetic North Pole at the world's heart, ringed by an impassable ice barrier 'no navigator has hitherto been able to approach,' and it recruits readers with the promise that 'the system will be fully explained' and the standing zetetic invitation to 'test for yourselves.' Around that core runs a freethought current — rationalist biblical criticism that disavows the Pauline and Johannine epistles and suspects tampered verses — and a survey of the era's heterodox sciences, from Reichenbach's od-force to spirit mediumship, canvassed rather than embraced. It is best understood as alternative/zetetic science and rationalist polemic, largely outside the esoteric taxonomy; the panel's 'New Thought' reading is a false positive on the word 'demonstration,' which here means empirical proof. (Not to be confused with the later CSICOP journal of the same name.) Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Zetetic and Alternative Science |
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