![]() ![]() 497,917 by Alexander Gleasonįrom the registered patent, he never mentioned that the Earth is flat. “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.” -US Patent No. Gleason might have claimed that the map is the “flat-Earth map” but his explanation written in his patent for the map is contradictory: The author was a flat-Earther who claimed the map as the “flat Earth map.” In reality, the map is just a normal azimuthal equidistant map centered on the North Pole.įrom the map’s patent, we know the author was aware and in full knowledge that the map was just a projection of the spherical Earth, contradictory to the claims in his book. ![]() “This warped worldview might even bias you, subconsciously, to under-appraise most of the developing world.The so-called “Gleason Map” is an old map published in the 19th century. “If you have a Mercator projection on your classroom walls, for example, you may grow up thinking Greenland is the size of Africa (not even close) or Alaska looms larger than Mexico (also nope).” Sokol wrote. The act of converting a three-dimensional object into something two-dimensional inevitably introduces distortions. ![]() Joshua Sokol of The New York Times writes that no flat map of a round world can be perfectly accurate. We’re proposing a radically different kind of map.” (via EarthSky) Previous world maps “We’re doing this to break a record, to make the flat map with the least error possible. adds that the new map features smaller distance errors than any other single-sided flat map.Īccording to EarthSky, Gott compares his team’s radical map-making approach to the way Dick Fosbury introduced a new high jumping technique to break records at the 1968 Olympics. While the new circular map features a few spacial distortions, reports that it doesn’t downsize or enlarge the areas of certain oceans or landmasses like other two-dimensional maps. ![]() Flat world maps have all kinds of distortions (hello, Africa is actually 14x the size of Greenland!), but these new coasters are more accurate than most /QmntLm7Agv- Laura Geggel February 23, 2021 ![]()
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