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This reminds me that there is a wonderful book which turns up occasionally with the somewhat long-winded title, "Zetetic Astronomy: EARTH NOT A GLOBE, an Experimental Inquiry into the TRUE FIGURE OF THE EARTH, Proving it a Plane, without Orbital or Actual Motion, and the ONLY KNOWN MATERIAL WORLD", by "Parallax", pub. by Day and Son, Paternoster Row, 1881, 430 pages including indices, all devoted to proving that the Earth is flat. So in the late 19th century there were still some folks arguing for the idea. I see from an on-line source that the author's true name was Samuel Birley Rowbotham. More information about the book can be found at http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/ . A world map was provided in the book on page 90, showing a flat, square Earth complete with four corners of "outer gloom and darkness," shown here at http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/img/fig54.jpg . B.W. Henry ================================================= ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Holt To: Discussion group for map history Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 2:20 PM Subject: [MapHist] Library of Congress gets unique flat earth map This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/11651 -- Who would believe it unless ancient tradition vouched for it? _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
