Diagram Illustrating the True Key to Ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography
- Title:
- Diagram Illustrating the True Key to Ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography
- Alternate Title:
- Diagram Illustrating the True Key to Ancient Cosmology
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Warren, William Fairfield
- Date:
- 1885
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 1094.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1094_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1870 - 1899
- Subject:
- Religion
Not So Persuasive - Measurement:
- 20 x 11.5 page (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- From the Middle Ages to our own time, the land of Eden - the site of biblical Paradise - has been a continuing subject of study, theological and geographical. See generally Scafi 2006. The pendulum has repeatedly swung from a symbolic reading of the biblical Paradise to a literal one and back again. Ibid. 352. "Mapping paradise [is] one of the most powerful expressions of the fundamental tension between the locative and utopian tendencies in Christianity." Ibid. 153.
The Age of Discovery led in the 17th century to persistent pressure for Christian theology to identify the precise location of Paradise in order to validate the text of Genesis. As Thomas Gale wrote in 1694: "Atheists and scoffers, whom the psalmist call Pests, usually demand, What's become of paradise? Shew us the place in the Maps? And if this be not done for them (they are generally lazy) with all exactness, . . . they will slide into a disbelief first of Genesis, then of the whole bible, and lastly of all revealed religion." (Quoted ibid. 284.) There are more than a dozen such maps in the collection, locating Eden from the Middle East (Iraq, Armenia, Palestine) to Western China, Bristol Florida, Jackson County Missouri, and the North Pole; Search > "Eden."
This map, based on extensive historical and theological analysis, identifies the location of Eden: submerged beneath the North Pole.
For other examples of geographic and cartographic pseudo-science in the collection, Search > "pseudo*".
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Warren, William F. 5th edtn. 1885. Paradise Found. The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole. A Study of the Prehistoric World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.