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

was part of the (successful

this map includes all the roads between principal market towns and the distances between them

Fort Worth and El Paso are all here - then some of the biggest cities in Texas

then the county seat and previously the centre of the Barony of Kendal - which would become Westmorland

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