Maps, Myths & Paradigms: With a Side of COPHEE

by Doug Fisher

Maps, Myths & Paradigms is a cartographic adventure that begins as a casual investigation into a curious but unlikely claim that an ancient civilization charted the Antarctic continent. The investigation that ensues leads the reader down a trail of mystery and intrigue revealing a series of fresh observations and new discoveries surrounding ancient maps, mythical lost civilizations, and modern geological paradigms. Among the 1) An accurate depiction of Antarctica’s Carney and Siple Islands lying off the coast of a sixteenth century portrayal of Western Antarctica bolsters the possibility that an ancient civilization charted the continent; 2) A copy of a long-lost 2,000-year-old Roman map, Agrippa’s Orbis Terrarum, is discovered mysteriously affixed to the bottom of a sixteenth century globe; 3) A new site is posited for Atlantis based on the stringent geographical layout, dimensions, and scale set forth in the writings of Plato; 4) The remains of Genesis, the world’s largest impact crater measuring 715 miles in diameter, are discovered lying at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean; 5) The Genesis Hemispheric Impact Structure (GHIS) is revealed—a vast concentric pattern of compression and shear fracturing extending out from and entirely around Genesis that comprises and encompasses nearly half of Earth’s continental crust; and finally, 6) A theory for a new Earth dynamic is proposed, Catastrophic Ocean Planet Hydro-Equilibrial Expansion (COPHEE), which may have been responsible for the demise of the Atlantean empire and could prove to be the demise of plate tectonics. These findings and more are spread across 300 pages of clear, engaging text along with 135 complementary images and illustrations.

304 pages, Paperback

Published November 10, 2018

Reviews

[Boris · Rating 1 out of 5]

The title of this book is misleading. The book is about a niche idea like flat Earth, that the Earth has expanded in size, initiated by a large impact in the region of the North Pole. This doesn't come toward the end of the book.

The book starts out discussing the Orontius and Piri Reis maps that apparent show Antarctica, several centuries prior to its discovery. This really doesn't tie in with the overall thesis of the book. The Orontius map clearly shows an ice-free Ross Sea in Antarctica and tries to tie this in with the global impact event. It's well known that the Ross sea was ice free until around 4000 BC and then froze from the global cooling that occurred after the end of the last great ice age.

There is then a painstaking and boring and for the reader an endless section on underwater geography and formations. Another painstaking discussion as to why Atlantis was located in Argentina though there's no archaeological evidence whatever. The book should have begun with its thesis than meandering over minutiae geographic and geologic information that should have been consigned to appendices.

The author discusses the great flood and misses the theory that best explains it as outlined in Graham Hancock's "Underworld". The Laurentide ice sheet in Canada failed catastrophically and dumped one million plus cubic kilometers of water into the world's ocean literally overnight. The timing of this event matches the time line given to Solon by the Egyptian priests in the 5th century BC.

I could go on about where the author discusses Noah's ark and the shrinking lifespans of those in the Old Testament.

I am completely open to thinking outside the box but this book with all of it's disjointed sections ultimately drifts into phantasmagoria and worst of all was a labor to read.