As it happens, we have this map in our Digital Collections because we work to digitize our collections and make them available to all—regardless of what they are! The globe is 500 years old but this template is based on much older maps and true scientific testable repeatable observations. Alexander Gleason created and patented this map to show how longitude and time could be calculated by tracing an indicator around the globe. Published in 1885, this map closely resembles the 1892 map offered here, though it lacks the indicator arms. One Instagram user ( here) shared a TikTok video which tries to challenge the fact that that Gleason’s map is a projection of the earth as a globe.

To help you pick the right size, here are some of my 'standard' map sizes next to each other, in portrait and landscape orientation. Experts told Reuters that Antarctica is clearly visible as the white ring on the perimeter of the map, contrary to claims by social media users that the continent is not shown. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. The American Universal Geography: Or, A View of the Present State of All the Kingdoms, States, and Colonies in the Known World. By bringing either of the indicator arms to any given point, the latitude and longitude of the said point may at once be determined without future computa- 8:, tion.Thus the time stands all ready computed to any child who is able to read the time of day from the face of an ordinary clock.

m. for London, and there is no computation or counting for the child to make; he thus reads the hour and fractional part thereof from the dial of the map. the twenty four meridian lines are divided near the periphery into quarters each representing quarters of an hourand at the periphery into sixty divisions each representing minutes of meridian time.Some obvious questions beg to be answered and NASA along with every other space agency has a lot of explaining to do in my opinion. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising.

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. I have been unable to learn anything else about his training or profession, though apparently he found little in the way of lasting success.By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Published in 1892, the creator of this map, Alexander Gleason, also believed that the world was flat.