Original Flat Earth Map

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Original flat earth map. He claims the above map called the authagraph world map achieves this task. The multi step process preserves the true dimensions of the continents by angling them outward instead of. Hajime narukawa a tokyo based architect and artist broke the globe up into 96 regions and folded it into a tetrahedron and then a pyramid before finally flattening it into a two dimensional sheet. But what exactly is a flat earth theory.

Alexander gleason the creator of the map claimed that the map depicts the shape of the flat earth. Map of the flat earth theory. We may finally have a faithful flat map however. The map contains several references to biblical passages as well as various jabs at the globe theory.

Don homuth in 1893 orlando ferguson a real. We set off to explore his map in order to illustrate his biggest. Different cultures at different times have posited a staggeringly diverse array of worldviews which cannot easily be summed up with the phrase flat earth nor is the idea of a flat earth something that is exclusive to the western world. The flat earth model is an archaic conception of earth s shape as a plane or disk.

In the 16th century gerardus mercator a flemish cartographer devised a new way of depicting the world on a flat plane. The gleason map is not a scaled down figure of the earth but it is merely a projection of the actual spherical shape of the earth like every other map. Orlando ferguson s map of the square and stationary earth 1893. Japanese architect hajime narukawa claims to have tackled a centuries old problem how to draw an oblate spheroid earth on a flat plane.

The 2016 winner of japan s prestigious good design designers figured out how to translate our spherical world into a rectangular box. In fact there never has been anything called the flat earth theory. The projection first created in 1999 frames the world s physical components in a 2d rectangle attempting to represent their relative sizes as accurately as. Wilbur glenn voliva s flat earth map modern mechanics and invention october 1931 samuel rowbotham s flat earth map of the world circa 1873 a lecture poster from the flat earth society s samuel shenton archive depicting his view of the earth.