Kathleen and Maps-L: Have seen the illustration you speak of but do not have a citation. However, thanks to J. Post, there is posted on the wall of the Map Room a photocopy of a poster/kit to make a square earth 'globe' with a boat on the edge. You cut out the paper pieces and glue them together to form a square globe with a boat set in one of the top edges. Hagar is in the boat and saying: "The World Is Flat And That Is That!" It was a promotion for "Hagar the Horrible's Very Nearly Complete Viking Handbook." (Workman Publishing, 1985). Wish I had two copies of the color original, one to file and one to mount. As it is, the black & white photo copy is a nice display. John Sutherland University of Georgia [log in to unmask] On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:05:06 -0500 Kathleen Weessies <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > This message was originally submitted by [log in to unmask] to the > MAPS-L list at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, > using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user > support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will > be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed > automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into > a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should > be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" > function of your mail program. > > ----------------- Message requiring your approval (14 lines) ------------------ > A patron and I both have vague memories, from perhaps school textbooks, of a > picture of the flat earth with a sailing ship falling over the edge. She > would like to find such a picture- part of a presentation about how far > we've come. I've turned several 'history of cartography' type books inside > out without any luck. Anyone seen one of those somewhere? > > Kathleen Weessies > Maps/GIS Librarian > 100 Library 308 > Michigan State University > East Lansing, MI 48824-1048 > 517-432-9669 > [log in to unmask]