John G. Abizaid’s The Enlightenment of the World is a historic flat earth book first published in English in 1910 and later expanded into a revised second edition carrying a 1912 copyright. Originally written in Arabic and translated by Abizaid, it argues for a flat, stationary Earth through observations of water, land, motion, the Sun, Moon and stars, with Scripture and biblical cosmology central to the work.

Alexander Gleason’s 1893 Is the Bible From Heaven? Is the Earth a Globe? was far more than a flat earth book. This article explores Gleason’s biblical worldview, Zetetic approach, arguments, experiments, historical context, and the ideas behind his famous 1892 map.

At the edge, where other maps show a simple coordinate border, Gleason engraved a broad band for the high southern latitudes — often interpreted in modern flat-earth circles as an “Antarctic ice ring,” though the original labels focus more on degrees and time than symbolism. Not every historical cartographer tied faith to their maps, but Gleason did — for him, Scripture shaped every line, and his observations of the world simply confirmed what the Word had already declared.

Orlando Ferguson’s 1893 Map of the Square and Stationary Earth reveals a rare blend of faith, geometry, and frontier craftsmanship. Researched and restored by ADVENTURE iDIAZ, this reproduction explores Ferguson’s biblical worldview, his lectures, and the map’s 2011 rediscovery at the Library of Congress.