# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-rowbotham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:18:03.901Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-rowbotham"
name: "Samuel Rowbotham"
slug: "samuel-rowbotham"
description: "Samuel Birley Rowbotham was an English inventor, writer, utopian socialist, quack doctor and flat Earther who wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe under the pseudonym Parallax. His work was originally published as a 16-page pamphlet (1849), and later expanded into a book (1865)."
tagline: "British writer (1816–1884)"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1816"
deathDate: "1884-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.882872
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Роуботэм, Сэмюэл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سامويل روبوثام"
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    title: "Samuel Rowbotham"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Rowbotham"
    title: "Samuel Rowbotham"
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    title: "Samuel Rowbotham"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Rowbotham"
    title: "Samuel Rowbotham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Rowbotham"
    title: "Samuel Rowbotham"
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    title: "Samuel Birley Rowbotham"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Rowbotham"
    title: "Samuel Rowbotham"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump