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Gleason’s map bears a patent date of November 15, 1892, granted in the United States, with applications made in several other countries. It features two indicator hands that reflect a time chart, rather than a map, used to ascertain the time in any part of the world relative to your own meridian time. The principal arguments advanced by the flat earth theorists are that a ship might seem to sail around a ball when it merely sailed around a circle; that all the effects of day and night could be produced by a fixed sun shining down upon a circular earth revolving like a card on a pin, and that the longest rivers have a descent of only a few feet. 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. have denied the corpse Christian burigl, and it was therefore interred secretly at Scellaires, a Barnardian abbey, between Nogent Troyes. By a decree of the National Assembly (1791) his remains were placed in the Pantheon, in Paris. Goldhaber-Gordon added that this experiment would show that “locations close to the south pole appear far apart on the map,” although that is not the reality.

Steffen also said that individuals can perform a similar experiment using geometry and Polaris, or the north star, as a function of latitude. Morden College is still active as a retirement home "For over 300 years" and apparently is open to all now, not just ".....retired merchants who are single, widowers or bachelors with a minimum age of 50........"

At some time in life Christopher got hooked on Samuel Birley Rowbotham’s “zetetic astronomy”. This was a modern-day flat-Earth theory according to which the Earth is a circular plane centered on the North Pole and bounded by ice, with the sun, planets and stars in motion only a few thousand miles above its surface. 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). It appears that some time in the 1880s Christopher—perhaps as a retirement project?—published a flat Earth map on a north polar azimuthal projection. Alas, I have found only references to such a map, but no image of the map itself.Christopher was listed as only a retired merchant, living under the conditions listed above in his application for residency. Jason Steffen, an assistant professor in physics and astronomy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told Reuters that the south pole “is the entire edge of the map, and the ring is Antarctica.” David Goldhaber-Gordon, a professor of physics at Stanford University, said that while flat maps are convenient, “a flat map of a curved surface must have distortions,” and “different mappings create different distortions.” It appears that present day residents cover a broader range than just the original requirements of "Retired Merchants who have lost their estates." In all, a great rarity of late-19 th century pseudoscience, raising intriguing questions of authorship and intellectual antecedents.

Remember, what the apostle Paul said, "but test (or prove) everything; hold fast what is good!" (1 Thes 5:21 ESV) Morden College is a"Collegiate Type Institution" , but not in the sense of being a University or College. Published in 1892, the creator of this map, Alexander Gleason, also believed that the world was flat. Though there was no evidence for this, he even wrote 'SCIENTIFICALLY AND PRACTICALLY CORRECT' at the top of the map. 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. There is ample publicly available evidence that the earth is not flat. NASA has published images of the earth from space, noting the “ancient Greeks believed the Earth was round and calculated its circumference with remarkable accuracy” ( here). An absolutely BRILLIANT analysis of the 1892 Gleason’s Flat Earth Map. So many questions are answered in this video and the secrets of Alexander Gleason are revealed regarding his masterpiece map.I source original, extremely rare maps from libraries, auction houses and private collections around the world, restore them at my London workshop, and then use specialist giclée inks and printers to create beautiful maps that look even better than the original.