![]() ![]() Homuth got his from his former history teacher, in Fargo, North Dakota the teacher, in turn, had received it from his grandfather, who lived in Ferguson’s hometown of Hot Springs, South Dakota. You strain your eyes, then take out your favorite binoculars and stare through them, as far as your eyes. Don Homuth donated this copy of the map, one of two known examples, to the Library of Congress in 2011. Standing on a flat plateau, you look ahead toward the horizon. Herd, 1890).įerguson’s map may have had limited reach, judging by the small number of copies that have survived. Morrow, 1894) One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe (William Carpenter, 1885) and Terra Firma. Some of these: Eclectic or Cosmo-Enspheric Astronomy: The firmament a hollow sphere, and we live inside of it (Ulysses G. Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat-Earth cosmography. Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk. ![]() The map contains several references to biblical passages as well as various jabs at the 'Globe Theory'. In an issue of the journal Miscellaneous Notes and Queries, published in 1896, the editors included Ferguson’s book in a list of other recent titles questioning the dominant scientific perspective on the nature of the globe. Flat Earth map drawn by Orlando Ferguson in 1893. In the 19 th-century United States, pamphleteers and authors of varying levels of credibility debated the flat-Earth theory vigorously. In 500 years’ time, which current scientific theories will be relegated to the same level as the flat Earth theory is now Richard Cutsforth, Chichester Notes & Queries will return in 2022. ![]()
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