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Category: People who measured refraction and mistrusted the result

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  • Dr. Ambrose Aird – Victorian gentleman-amateur (1809–1884) who revived Lorimer's abandoned method to prove the flat plane, and fitted it with a correction that could not fail.
  • Samuel Rowbotham – English founder of modern flat-Earth doctrine (1816–1884), whose 'zetetic' method sought a flat world from a fixed conclusion – and whose canal experiment measured only refraction.

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