“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. The so-called “Gleason Map” is an old map published in the 19th century.
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