They showed that:
• 🧭 Longitude-based scaling is accurate
• 🧠 Latitude distortion is expected due to projection format
•📏 Measurement ratios hold true using the map’s own nautical mile scale
And yes, the same coordinates work across different map designs (pyramid, sphere, disc) because coordinates are celestial, not terrain-based.
"Projection ≠ Reality."
"Utility = Understanding."
🗺 Still Used Today
The Azimuthal Equidistant (AE) projection isn’t obsolete:
✅ It’s used in aviation charts
✅ It’s on the UN logo
✅ It’s the default for radio propagation (e.g. HAM circles)
✅ It’s used in radar mapping and sonar design
Why?
Because when you want direction, central reference, and angular distance, AE works.
"Globe defenders mock AE....until they need to fly a plane or bounce radio off the ionosphere"
📚 Gleason’s Vision
From Is the Bible from Heaven? Is the Earth a Globe?, Gleason writes:
"Time is the shadow of the Sun on the Earth. Geography and time are one."
"No man has ever measured a curve upon land or water, and yet men talk about it as if it had been proved for centuries."
His aim wasn’t just visual,it was functional and cosmological.
He built the map to align Sun, time, and place in one working model.
And backed it with a patent, a book, and a legacy still valid today.
🎯 Final Take
The Gleason map works as it was intended:
✅ It tells time
✅ It tracks the Sun
✅ It divides zones logically
✅ It preserves longitude scaling
✅ It matches navigational reality
✅ It came with functional tools
✅ It aligns with nautical mile math
✅ It matches star-based navigation
✅ It explains solar motion and apparent Sun behavior
✅ It requires no spinning space rock
It’s not a toy.
It’s a functional solar timekeeping tool, and it still holds up today.
#FlatEarth 🌐
#GleasonMap 🕰️
#SunClock ☀️
#SolarSpiral 🌀
#LongitudeLogic 📏
#CelestialNavigation 🧭
#AsItIs 📚