The Library of Congress has received the only copy extant of Orlando Ferguson’s 1893 Map of a Square and Stationary Earth, which was based on the Bible and envisioned our planet as a fixed and flat thing. You know, it attacked the “globe theory.” Click on the map below to see the large-scale-version. From The History Blog: “Don Homuth, a former North Dakota state senator and current resident of Salem, Oregon, will donate the sole complete copy of the Map of a Square and Stationary Earth by Orlando Ferguson to theLibrary of Congress. Homuth was given the map by his eighth-grade English teacher John Hildreth who had received it from his grandfather.”
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