On page 350, he mentions “a new map of the world as it is” and says, “it contains all the continents and principal islands and rivers of the world, also, all the principal cities of the earth.” ( here) Gleason argued that the earth is flat in his 1890 book “Is the Bible from Heaven? Is the Earth a Globe?” ( here). They say “where expletive is Antarctica,” pointing to the “ice ring that goes around” the world. 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. Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ring that circles the earth’s edges.
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