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Excerpt from The World Flat-Globe and International Geographical History of the World The World Flat-Globe and International Geographical History (two parts) comprise together a new and wonderfully convenient twentieth-century system of world-wide and international review and reference. Each is necessary to the intelligent and satisfactory use of the other. They are complete, up-to-the-minute, concise and exhaustive and leave nothing to be desired in reviewing past history and following current events. They have been most carefully prepared and edited by the master minds of the geographical world. The Plat-Globe pictures the entire earths surface at a glance all lands and waters, in proper size, proportion and relation, as maps, atlases and charts cannot do. The History explains and describes ail the forces and movements of Nature and mans activities and pursuits upon the earth from the earliest records to his wonderful and varied achievements of today; through the slow movements of his conquest of Nature, the annihilation of time and distance in intercommunication and transportation, and his progress in social and governmental life, as well as the production and distribution of products of the soil, mines and sea, and in the multitude of industries he has developed and organized and the national and international financial systems necessary to their successful prosecution. The following chapters tell the story of the ages in clear and simple form, more interesting and fascinating than any romance or novel. Mans thousands of years of continuous mental effort and physical labor, and the expenditure of untold wealth, have produced the conditions of human life of today. The reading of this story gives the wide horizons broader view and is an education in itself for every man, woman and child. The Flat-Globe and History are offered at a price so low as to be within the easy reach of everyone. Every place of learning, home, office and place of business can now have a beautiful large World-Globe and complete International Geographical History. They are pronounced by the leading minds best qualified to judge, the greatest production of intelligence the world has ever seen at the price. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Contrary to popular belief fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the earth was round. The idea of a spherical world had been widely accepted in educated circles from as early as the fourth century B.C. Yet, bizarrely, it was not until the supposedly more rational nineteenth century that the notion of a flat earth really took hold. Even more bizarrely, it persists to this day, despite Apollo missions and widely publicized pictures of the decidedly spherical Earth from space. Based on a range of original sources, Garwood's history of flat-Earth beliefs---from the Babylonians to the present day---raises issues central to the history and philosophy of science, its relationship to religion and the making of human knowledge about the natural world. Flat Earth is the first definitive study of one of history's most notorious and persistent ideas, and it evokes all the intellectual, philosophical, and spiritual turmoil of the modern age. Ranging from ancient Greece, through Victorian England, to modern-day America, this is a story that encompasses religion, science, and pseudoscience, as well as a spectacular array of people and places. Where else could eccentric aristocrats, fundamentalist preachers, and conspiracy theorists appear alongside Copernicus, Newton, and NASA, except in an account of such a legendary misconception? Thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating, Flat Earth is social and intellectual history at its best.
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Cartographers have long grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem, mapmakers have created map projections. This work discusses and illustrates the known map projections from before 500BC to the present, with facts on their origins and use.