The Decline of Flat Eartherism

There has always been trolling engagement with Flat Eartherism. People would show up at those original lectures in the 1800s and just come there to heckle, just, you know, make fun of the lecturer or pretend to take his side. And yet in some ways that sustains this movement, it kept it around. Even the joking engagement was enough to keep the idea on the forefront of people's minds.