Flat Earth Map : Gleason's New Standard Map of the World Poster A2 23.4" x 16.5"

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on the fourth region "the light is brighter than that of sunset or stars": it lay in the northwest, and after sunset in summer was practically in semi-obscurity.

Beliefs that the Earth is flat, contrary to over two millennia of scientific consensus that it is roughly spherical, [3] are promoted by a number of organizations and individuals. Such beliefs are pseudoscience; the hypotheses and assertions are not based on scientific knowledge. Flat Earth advocates are classified by experts in philosophy and physics as science deniers. [4] [5] a b c d Schadwald, Robert J. (July 1980). "The Flat-out Truth:Earth Orbits? Moon Landings? A Fraud! Says This Prophet" (PDF). Science Digest.

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. Ambrose, Graham (7 July 2017). "These Coloradans say Earth is flat. And gravity's a hoax. Now they're being persecuted". The Denver Post. Main articles: Mercator 1569 world map, Mercator projection, and Gerardus Mercator Mercator Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio, 1569. High res image.

a b Whitfield, Peter (1998). New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. New York: Routledge. p. 36. ISBN 0-415-92026-4. False. Gleason’s map is a depiction of the earth as a globe in a north-polar azimuthal equidistant projection and is not proof that the earth is flat. In 1956, Samuel Shenton created the International Flat Earth Research Society, better known as the "Flat Earth Society", as a successor to the Universal Zetetic Society, running it as "organising secretary" from his home in Dover, England. [18] [31] Given Shenton's interest in alternative science and technology, the emphasis on religious arguments was less than in the predecessor society. [32] This was just before the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik; he responded: "Would sailing round the Isle of Wight prove that it were spherical? It is just the same for those satellites." [33] [ bettersourceneeded] Christine Garwood (2007) Flat Earth: The History of an Infamous Idea, Pan Books, ISBN 1-4050-4702-X Posidonius (or Poseidonius) of Apameia (c. 135–51 BCE), was a Greek Stoic philosopher [10] who traveled throughout the Roman world and beyond and was a celebrated polymath throughout the Greco-Roman world, like Aristotle and Eratosthenes. His work "about the ocean and the adjacent areas" was a general geographical discussion, showing how all the forces had an effect on each other and applied also to human life. He measured the Earth's circumference by reference to the position of the star Canopus. His measure of 240,000 stadia translates to 24,000 miles (39,000km), close to the actual circumference of 24,901 miles (40,074km). [11]Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, transl. W. H. Stahl, (New York: Columbia Univ. Pr., 1952), chaps. v-vii, (pp. 200–212). Shenton died in 1971. Charles K. Johnson, a correspondent from California, inherited part of Shenton's library from Shenton's wife; he incorporated and became president of the International Flat Earth Research Society of America and Covenant People's Church in California. Over the next three decades, under his leadership, the Flat Earth Society grew to a reported 3,500 members. [37]