Rowbotham didn't have the funds and resources to map and decipher the world on his own. He was just a medical doctor
So he had no scientific training and didn't work professionally as a scientist.
And no serious scientists at his time or since agreed with his ideas.
Are you seeing a problem here with placing so much faith in him and his ideas?
This society is about the search for knowledge.
And yet when shown multiple simple, quick and cheap ways to test the assertion that the horizon always rises to eye level you refused to try any of them, just saying you were too busy. You don't seem that bothered about searching for knowledge
The bottomline is that all of goods and human transport/navigation work extremely well under Globe theory/maps
If this is the claim, then those who profess that claim should be expected to show that it works well for all situations, and is a globe theory or a map.
OK. Well, I was in Dubai on a work trip recently. In both directions at all times on the flights a map was displayed showing the route the plane was taking, it showed us where we were at all times, how fast we were going, our time to destination. And we got there exactly when they said we would. And, of course, the map was a globe. How did all that work if the earth was flat? Are they "in on it"?
I think we'd know about it if the global transport industry shipping goods and people around the world simply didn't work.
And I, and we, admit that the matter of navigation is beyond our current power to entirely decipher with our resources available.
But it has been deciphered by mapping the world as a globe and it demonstrably works.
I did provide a source which stated that there were transformations that were not available to the public.
Why are transformations necessary? On a flat earth you'd just need to scale, not transform.
That is not a positive claim. That is a negative claim. One may even say that all human knowledge is false, with that statement being absolutely true. Negative claims are true by default. "Not" is the default. Ghosts do not exist by default. Any possible knowledge must be first demonstrated true, for it to be true.
There's a difference between ghosts and goats.
Ghosts do not exist by default because they cannot be seen or observed.
If people claim to have seen/experiences ghosts then the burden of proof is on them.
Goats do exist by default because they can be seen and observed.
If people claim that goats are fake then the burden of proof is on them.
The globe earth has been observed. Not by me but by hundreds of people, 7 of whom were space tourists and paid for the privilege.
I've personally seen a space shuttle take off.
There is endless film and photos of the globe earth. If your assertion is that all these people are lying and that all this footage is fake then the burden of proof is on you.
It pulls up the flat map for my area and projects the globe's coordinates upon it.
Again, why is any projection needed?