It, “…models the Earth as an enclosed plane centered at the North Pole and bounded along its perimeter by a wall of ice, with the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars moving only several hundred miles above the surface of Earth.” The modern movement can trace it’s heritage back to Samuel Rowbotham, whose 1849 16 page pamphlet and 1881 book Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe make the case for a flat Earth. However, flat Earth societies don’t buy this whole 3D/2D divide and believe (seriously or not) that the Earth is flat. Space Shuttle Endeavour Radar Antenna Mast Radar Antenna The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) has achieved its goal of producing the most complete high-resolution map of Earth’s landforms.
And that globes show us what the Earth really looks like. Earth’s landforms from two differing viewpoints. Most people accept that maps use a variety of projection techniques to render the 3D Earth onto a 2D plane. The map above shows what a “Globe” of the Earth would look like if the Earth was flat. Map created by John Krygier at Making Maps Just study your map of the flat Earth, or you may study the picture on the cover of this book, to see how, in order to go from Chile to Australia.
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