Old Flat Earth World Map, 1696 by Jacob Harrewyn - California Island, Cherubs - Polar Azimuthal Projection Size:24x28in (60x70cm) most of the people in

most of the people in the North East are of Scandinavian or 'Pictish-Scandinavian' descent

there's not yet an M25 orbiting London

A lovely old map of Cardiff

and the Hagia Sophia church/mosque

and Mazovia

Old Flat Earth World Map, 1696 by Jacob Harrewyn - California Island, Cherubs - Polar Azimuthal Projection Size:24x28in (60x70cm) most of the people inA highly attractive and extremely rare "flat Earth" world map, originally published by Jacob Harrewyn in 1696. Beautiful engravings adorn the four corners of the map. This projection is technically called a 'polar azimuthal' projection, which means that the Earth has been flattened with the North Pole at the top. If you look at the listing images, you can see that our understanding of the world was quite different at the end of the 17th century: