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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Gleason's Map and Middleton's Map
« on: January 04, 2017, 08:52:43 AM »
The Gleason's Map is actually a Polar Azimuthal equidistant projection of the Globe. Heck, it's even stated on the map itself, that it's a projection! Anyways, the uneven latitude lines show an unequivocal sign of such projection. Just read Gleason's US patent application from 1895 (US 497917 A). He didn't get a patent for an already well known mapping technique which actually is an equidistant projection from a pole, but essentially for the various tools he added to the circular map which represented a novelty. In fact, the intent of his map was to create an educational apparatus:
« On the face of the map proper, and within another circle (still toward the center) is laid out the continents, principal islands, rivers and cities of the world; their latitudes and longitudes corresponding to the latitudes and longitudes of all other first class geographical globe maps or charts of the world.
(further down) The map is not so extorted as to lose the relative latitude and longitude of any places on the land or sea, but retains all latitudes and longitudes of places agreeing with other recognized authors; and as the proper relations of continents and countries all stand in their relative position to each other, they are thus impressed upon the mind of the student. The extorsion of the map from that of a globe consists, mainly in the straightening out of the meridian lines allowing each to retain their original value from Greenwich, the equator to the two poles. »
In reply to SexWarrior who seems to use reverse psychology by pretending that all those who use the globe model would embrace some irrational "religious zeal"/belief, in fact the Flat Earth model is the religious one: https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/home/index.php/featured/religious-references
...To the point of pretending that the equidistant projection, would be an attempt in conceptualizing a flat Earth model from its author, which is plain false.
Here's another evidence : a World Map by Peter Apian created in 1524
http://www.leventhalmap.org/id/m8769
Like for the Gleason's map it's essentially a polar projection of the globe. The difference here is that he's using a stereographic projection centered on the North Pole.
« On the face of the map proper, and within another circle (still toward the center) is laid out the continents, principal islands, rivers and cities of the world; their latitudes and longitudes corresponding to the latitudes and longitudes of all other first class geographical globe maps or charts of the world.
(further down) The map is not so extorted as to lose the relative latitude and longitude of any places on the land or sea, but retains all latitudes and longitudes of places agreeing with other recognized authors; and as the proper relations of continents and countries all stand in their relative position to each other, they are thus impressed upon the mind of the student. The extorsion of the map from that of a globe consists, mainly in the straightening out of the meridian lines allowing each to retain their original value from Greenwich, the equator to the two poles. »
In reply to SexWarrior who seems to use reverse psychology by pretending that all those who use the globe model would embrace some irrational "religious zeal"/belief, in fact the Flat Earth model is the religious one: https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/home/index.php/featured/religious-references
...To the point of pretending that the equidistant projection, would be an attempt in conceptualizing a flat Earth model from its author, which is plain false.
Here's another evidence : a World Map by Peter Apian created in 1524
http://www.leventhalmap.org/id/m8769
Like for the Gleason's map it's essentially a polar projection of the globe. The difference here is that he's using a stereographic projection centered on the North Pole.