Ferguson disputed the existence of gravity and supported his idea with quotes from the Bible (seen at the bottom): he placed, for example, a guardian angel in each corner of the Earth ( Revelations 7: “four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds. The sun, moon and North star are depicted as rotating lamps suspended at the end of arc-shaped arms rooted in the Arctic. Lining the rim of the basin is the jagged coast of Antarctica, which forms the icy edge of the world. To counter the so-called 'Columbus phenomenon' (where the mast of a ship coming in over the horizon gradually gets taller and taller until you can see the ship) he made up an idea that the world is square, stationary and the Earth itself is imprinted with an 'inverse toroid'. Orlando Ferguson was a supporter of the idea that the world is flat and not round. This drawing shows, in what Orlando Ferguson called, a map of a square and stationary Earth. ( Andrews 2011 Citation: Andrews, John, “Hot Springs’ Square Thinker,” South Dakota Magazine (13 July, 2011).(Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA)Ī drawing made by the American resident Orlando Ferguson (1846–1911).
After the publication of this map, Ferguson began lecturing and then wrote a 60-page pamphlet which included other theories such as the sun was 30 miles in diameter and 3,000 miles from earth. He presented himself as holding the titles of “Doctor and “Professor,” though it's unlikely that either honorific was earned. The long subtitle encapsulates most of the cartographer's proof and motivation, “four hundred passages in the Bible that condemn the Globe Theory, or the Flying Earth, and none sustain it this map is the Bible map of the world."įerguson's approach to geography was a literal interpretation of the Bible, including the reference to angels visiting the four corners of the earth (hence the “square and stationary” title). Another attempt at illustrating how the world could potentially be flat is Orlando Feguson’s 1893 “Map of the Square and Stationary Earth.
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