![]() I can’t even find a quote from it, and I’d dearly love to read the explanation of how Ferguson’s earth is supposed to work. I have searched high and low but cannot, alas, find a copy of this most excellent book on the Internet. It will Teach You How to Foretell Eclipses. Orlando Ferguson, for a book explaining this Square and Stationary Earth. The museum’s copy, however, is missing the bottom of the map and footer with Bible verses condemning “the globe theory” and the following irresistible offer from Prof. The only other copy known to exist is in the Pioneer Museum of Hot Springs, South Dakota, Ferguson’s home town and the city where the map was first printed in 1893 (the same year the building that now houses the museum was built as a school). “It was a shock to hear it may be the only (map of its kind) in the world.” “For years and years I had it folded away,” said. “Probably very few copies were printed, and even fewer survived,” he said. Robert Morris, senior technical information specialist in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, said they searched through 75 to 100 related maps before confirming they didn’t have a similar map in its collections. He didn’t realize it was the only one left intact until he contacted the LoC to arrange for the donation. Homuth was given the map by his eighth-grade English teacher John Hildreth who had received it from his grandfather. ![]() Don Homuth, a former North Dakota state senator and current resident of Salem, Oregon, will donate the sole complete copy of the Map of a Square and Stationary Earth by Orlando Ferguson to the Library of Congress.
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