Flat Earth Map - Gleason's New Standard Map Of The World - Large 24 x 36 1892

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The entry for an example at the American Geographic Society Library in Milwaukee appears to be a modern reproduction. the two arms G and H being put on said pin above the flange, b, then a light spring washer H, in the top of the arm H and the head of the pin riveted so that the two arms are held together by friction and can be turned on each other back and forth.

Secondary sources on the internet describe him as a civil engineer, but in the Directory he is listed variously as a solicitor (1882-1883), machinist (1889), engraver (1893) and patternmaker (1898)… never as a civil engineer. The map is not so extorted as to lose the relative latitude and longitude of any places on the land or sea, but retains all latitudes and longitudes of places agreeing with other recognized authors; and as the proper relations of continents and countries all stand in their relative position to each other, they are thus impressed upon the mind of the student. Both zetetic astronomy and Christopher’s map made their way across the Atlantic and found adherents here in the United States, Alexander Gleason among them. is a vertical central sectional elevation through a small central portion of the map, showing a portion of the indicating arms and the construction of the parts by which they are secured movably together and the two to the map. Contrary to popular belief fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the earth was round.Only the fourth known example of Alexander Gleason’s 1892 New Standard Map of the World, an important example of the migration of flat Earth thought from England to the United States.

It contains all the continents and principal islands and rivers of the world, also, all the principal cities of the earth. The extorsion of the map from that of a globe consists, mainly in the straightening out of the meridian lines allowing each to retain their original value from Greenwich, the equator to the two poles. A projection of a person on a page is also flat (see Jeff Brown’s ‘Flat Stanley’ character), but people aren’t flat,” Bennett said. Gleason’s map could conceptually be made by placing a flat horizontal paper just above a translucent globe whose north pole is at the top; then placing a bright LED at the south pole and making each feature according to where its shadow falls on the paper,” Goldhaber-Gordon said. Thus the time stands all ready computed to any child who is able to read the time of day from the face of an ordinary clock.Next look at your own pocket time or clock, and if it be just eleven oclock; move the arm G to eleven and the arm H, will still retain its relative position to arm G, (as the two arms are held to each other by friction) and indicate six p. For example, I can add a short message, or highlight an important location, or add your family's coat of arms. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gleason's new standard map of the world : on the projection of J. Aside from the evidence offered by his book and the two maps, I have found only brief mentions in the Buffalo City Directory between 1882 and 1898, during which time he had at least six different addresses.

Alexander Gleason created and patented this map to show how longitude and time could be calculated by tracing an indicator around the globe. If you’re planning on using a marker of any sort, this is a better choice because it’s easier to clean. Read more about the condition New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging is applicable). Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.

Charles Bennett, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, said that representing a 3D object such as the earth in 2D is impossible “on the flat pages of an atlas,” which is why projections are used, but they are not accurate depictions of the earth’s shape. The circle of the map is fourteen and one-fourth inches, having a time dial on which is marked in bold Roman numerals the twenty-four hours of the day and the minutes of the hour. To help you pick the right size, here are some of my 'standard' map sizes next to each other, in portrait and landscape orientation. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed. Rowbotham (1816-84) gained enough adherents that he seems to have made a career of lecturing and publishing on the subject, his best-known work being Zetetic Astronomy: The Earth Not a Globe (1864).

In any case, whether the world is or isn't flat, this map is a wonderfully rendered polar azimuthal projection of the world, with North America and Russia at the top.New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . Things get weird, though, with the “Descriptive Key” on the back of the map, which ends with the sentence “The demonstration has reference to either considerations[sic]: the earth a globe or a plane—take your choice. All of my maps are well packaged and sent in a rugged tube if unframed, or surrounded by foam if framed. I read this as Gleason unwittingly fessing up that his map is, like any other, a projection of a globe or section thereof onto a flat surface. This quite a smart map - the numbers around the outside of the central disc show that longitude and time zones can be calculated quite simply by flattening the globe.