Exploring Historical Geography Texts

Recently came across this book. I was out in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Um, this book is from seventeen seventy-seven.

America was

one year old at the time.

Um, the name of this book is right here.

It's The Universal

Geographical Grammar from seventeen seventy-seven.

I'll be going through this book, making a lot of videos 'cause there's some

crazy

stuff in here. I'm just gonna give a, a quick

preview of this, uh, because there's things in here

like... So here's, here's the opening map.

Here's the opening map of the world.

And right,

let's see, right,

right here,

Eastern Tartary,

and right here is Western Tartary.

And there's China.

And what we'll get into farther back is gonna be

Chinese Tartary also.

And then

over here,

the lower half of America is Florida.

The left side, you can see California,

and the whole top

is empty,

and there is no Canada.

So

then go to

the next one.

This is The Doctrine of the Sphere.

Here is the artificial sphere.

Because the world

was coming from being

flat

and going into

being a globe.

And right here you've got the doctrine of-