[decimon]

I don't want it to fall into the hands of relatives, for God's sake!

[decimon]

[Nervous Tick]

Is it just me, or are the angel at the top left and the angel at the top right taking a whiz on a giant roulette wheel?

[Raycpa]

[battlecry]

Classic Onion.

[shoff]

We still have flat earthers, just they call themselves global warming advocates

[Cicero]

That map is most unscientific. Where are the elephants and turtles that should be holding it up?

[Larry Lucido]

Apparently the different time zone thing didn’t bother him. Somehow it managed to be dark on one side of the world while light on the other side, just for now reason at all. :-)

[WKUHilltopper]

“Now, I’m 67. I don’t want it to fall into the hands of relatives, for God’s sake! And I don’t particularly want to sell it. So we thought we’d send it to the Library of Congress...”

Sure, pal. The government will take care it—right away! Idiots will probably think the tissue paper is exactly that.

[fishtank]

Why would anyone think that the Bible teaches a flat earth???

Isaiah 40:22 “It is He who sits above

the circle of the earth,

And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,

Who stretches out the heavens

like a curtain

And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.”

.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Anyone that has ever read the bible knows the earth isn’t flat.

[ApplegateRanch]

Only one fully intact version of Ferguson's map, which represents the Earth as a giant, rectangular slab with a dimpled upper surface, remains. Don Homuth of Salem, Ore., just donated the map to the Library of Congress. [See the map]

"It's very fragile. It's printed on tissue paper and hand-colored with watercolors," Homuth said. He got the map from his eighth grade history teacher in Fargo, N.D., who got it from his grandfather, who lived in Hot Springs, S.D. — Ferguson's hometown.

Somebody hasn't done their homework. There is a copy of the map hanging on the wall of one of the dowstairs display room of the historic Hot Springs Historical Museum.

(The museum is housed in the old 3 story + basement sandstone Hot Springs School building, atop Schoolhouse Hill. It was k-12, with the lower floors dedicated to the lower classes and the high school. The older the kids, the more stairs they had to climb; the high schoolers realy were at the top of the heap, housed on the 3rd floor!)

I saw the map the first time we visited Hot Springs, back in 1994, and was fascinated by it. I took 35mm photos if it, not dreaming at the time that in just over a year we would own acreage here, and be full time citizens of Hot Springs a few years later.

I have tried hard to find more information concerning the map, the pamphlet, and Ferguson himself.

Alas, even here, and with a high speed connection, it is nigh unto impossible to come by much of anything about him, let alone a physical copy of any of his works.

The map is a beautiful piece of art work, and was a really ingenious, though misguided, cartographic endeavor.