The International Globe Company, 115 Nassau Street, New York City, have brought out an educational apparatus of great value in their "International Flat Globe of the World," with its geographical history, edited by Commander Robert E. The map was described in The Publishers Weekly, Volume 71, Part 2 (June 15, 1907), page 1836 as follows: Includes a note that it was edited by Robert Peary, the American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909. African Islands, including Madagascar (69)įascinating "Flat-Globe" of the World, published in New York by the International Globe Company. "What makes his flat Earth different from other theories is his theory holds that the Earth is imprinted with an 'inverse toroid.'" If you were to take a donut and press it into wet cement and then remove the donut, Bingham explained, the rounded impression it left in the cement would be what is known in mathematics as an inverse toroid. Typical of flat Earths, Ferguson's Earth is a rectangular slab, the four corners of which are each guarded by an angel. "Ferguson was trying to make an updated version of the flat Earth theory to fit the biblical description of the Earth with known facts," Bingham said. James Bingham, chairman of the museum's board of directors, told us what he knows about it. The other copy is housed in the Pioneer Historical Museum in Hot Springs. So we thought we'd send it to the Library of Congress," Homuth told Life's Little Mysteries. I don't want it to fall into the hands of relatives, for God's sake! And I don't particularly want to sell it. He got the map from his eighth grade history teacher in Fargo, N.D., who got it from his grandfather, who lived in Hot Springs, S.D. It's printed on tissue paper and hand-colored with watercolors," Homuth said.
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