Outrageous Hypotheses interview excerpt on the Nuremberg Chronicle
description: This interview segment was recorded during the opening of the Outrageous Hypotheses exhibit at WSU MASC. The exhibit was based on Being Wrong, the 2013-2014 Common Read. Trevor Bond describes his favorite object in the exhibit, the Nuremberg Chronicle.
creator: WSU Global
publisher: WSU Global
date: 2013-08
contributor: Bond, Trevor
rights: Copyright restrictions apply
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language: English
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Outrageous Hypotheses interview excerpt about flat earth theory
description: This interview was recorded during the opening of the Outrageous Hypotheses exhibit at WSU MASC. In it, Mark O'English describes the materials in the exhibit about Samuel Rowbottam's Zetetic flat earch theory and what he finds interesting about it. The exhibit was created to relate to the 2013-2014 Common Read.
creator: WSU Global
publisher: WSU Global
date: 2013-08
contributor: O'English, Mark
rights: Copyright restrictions apply
format: mp4
language: English
type: Moving Image

Being Wrong cover
description: This is the cover for Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, by Kathryn Schulz. This book is the 2013-2014 WSU Common Reading.
creator: Keenan
source: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
publisher: New York: Ecco
date: 2010
contributor: Schulz, Kathryn
rights: Copyright restrictions apply.
format: image
language: English
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Babirusa from Nieuhof’s Remarkable Voyages
subject: World history -- Early works to 1800. Indonesia -- Description and travel.
description: This is likely a depiction of a babirusa, which is native to Indonesia. Here it is presented in a slender, dog-like posture. In the natural world, the babirusa more closely resembles a boar.
creator: Nieuhoff, Johannes
source: Remarkable Voyages and Travells [sic] into Brazil, and the Best Parts of the East-Indies
publisher: T'Amsterdam : Voor de weduwe van Jacob van Meurs, op de Keizers-gracht.
date: 1682
rights: Public domain
format: image
type: jpeg

Tropical animals from Nieuhof’s Remarkable Voyages
subject: World history -- Early works to 1800. Indonesia -- Description and travel.
description: This engraving depicts a number of animals from the Asian tropics, including an elephant and a "sucoterio," which is likely a misinterpretation of a Sumatran rhinoceros.
creator: Nieuhof, Johann
source: Remarkable Voyages and Travells [sic] into Brazil, and the Best Parts of the East-Indies
publisher: T'Amsterdam : Voor de weduwe van Jacob van Meurs, op de Keizers-gracht.
date: 1682
rights: Public domain
format: image
type: jpeg

Blemmye from Nuremberg Chronicles
subject: World history -- Early works to 1800.
description: This illustration shows a member of a race of people called the Blemmye. They were initially described by Pliny the Elder in his Historia Naturalis as in Nubia.
creator: Schedel, Hartmann
source: Nurenberg Chronicles
publisher: Nuremberg: Anton Koberger
date: 1500
rights: Public domain
format: jpeg
type: image

A new map of North America : shewing its principal divisions, chief cities, townes, rivers, mountains, &c.
subject: North America -- Early works to 1800 -- Maps
description: This map of North America by British cartographer Edward Wells depicts California as an island. This misrepresentation was based on accounts from the voyages of Hernando Cortes.
creator: Wells, Edward (1667-1727)
source: Early Washington Maps
publisher: Oxford : Printed at the Theater
date: 1701
contributor: Burghers, M., engraver
rights: Public domain
format: maps (documents)
language: English
type: jpeg

Engraving of Noah's Ark with unicorns
subject: Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D. -- Early works to 1800.
description: In this depiction of Noah's Ark from 1681, several pairs of animals are shown boarding Noah's Ark, including a pair of unicorns near the front of the line.
creator: Josephus, Flavius
source: Histoire des Juifs, écrite par Flavius Joseph, sous le titre de Antiquitez Judaïques
publisher: Amsterdam : Chez la Veuve Schippers, & Henry Wetstein
date: 1681
contributor: Arnauld d'Andilly, Monsieur (Robert), 1588-1674 Schippers, veuve, printer Wetstein, Henricus, printer
rights: Public domain
format: jpeg
language: French
type: image

Satellite photograph of Scablands
subject: Geology -- Washington (State), Eastern.
description: This satellite photograph from 1973 shows the braided pathways of the Channeled Scablands. While aerial photography helped illustrate Bretz's theory that a giant flood formed the Scablands, satellite images such as this provided a broader overhead perspective to better illustrate Bretz's evidence.
creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
source: The channeled scablands of eastern Washington : the geologic story of the Spokane flood
publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office
date: 1973
rights: Public domain
format: image
type: jpeg

Title page for A Treatise of the Great Antidote of Van Helmont, Paracelsus, and Croillius
description: This title page is from a pamphlet published in 1671 that describes how to create an elixir that promises long life and claims to have a "restoring nature even at the point of death...effectively removing away the seeds of all diseases."
creator: J. H., a lover of truth
source: A treatise of the great antidote of Van Helmont, Paracelsus, and Crollius; by them called the Elixir proprietatis: known by all physitians to be the greatest cordial and only medicine in the world for long and sound life: restoring nature even at the point of death, and effectually taking away the seeds of all diseases. And an examination of authors concerning its true preparation: as also, a ready way to volatise salt of tartar, by which this elixir is truly prepared.
publisher: London: Anno Domini
date: 1671
rights: Public domain
format: jpeg
language: English
type: text

Chart depicting geocentric universe
description: This chart printed in a Dutch book on astronomy depicts a geocentric universe, with the Earth at its center and the planets, sun, and stars orbiting around the Earth. In this chart, Mercury and Venus orbit around the sun, which would help explain their retrograde motion. Unlike many other geocentric models, the orbit of the planets are not concentric, but instead intersect.
creator: Aratus, Solensis
source: Hvg. Grotii Batavi Syntagma Arateorvm: Opvs Poeticae Et Astronomiae Stvdiosis Vtilissimvm: Quo Quae
publisher: Lvgduni Batavorvm : Ex officinâ Plantinianâ, apvd Christophorvm Raphelengivm, Academiae Lugduno-Batauae Typographum
date: 1600
rights: Public domain
format: jpeg
language: Latin
type: map

Charts illustrating a geocentric universe
description: This chart from William Derham's Astro-theology displays a model of the geocentric universe, including the orbit of the planets, the stars, and the "coclum empyreum," which was essentially heaven. In this model, as in all geocentric models, Earth is the fixed center of the universe.
creator: Derham, William
source: Astro-theology: or, A demonstration of the being and attributes of God : from a survey of the heavens
publisher: London : Printed for W. Innys, at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard
date: 1715
rights: Public domain
format: jpeg
language: English
type: map

Theory of the Earth title page
description: This is the title page from William Whitson's Theory of the Earth. In it, he attempts to explain the deluge described in the book of Noah as the result of a comet passing near Earth.
creator: Whitson, William
source: New Theory of the Earth, from its Original, to the Consummation of all Things
publisher: London : Printed by R. Roberts, for Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street
date: 1696
rights: Public Domain
format: jpeg
language: English
type: text

Portrait of Osmar Waller
subject: Waller, Osmar L.
description: This portrait of Osmar Waller was taken when Waller was Vice-President of Washington State College. Waller taught mathematics and civil engineering at WSC and was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Waller was also a proponent of the Gravity Plan, which was a series of canals, tunnels, and dams that would have channeled water from the Pend Oreille River to the Columbia Basin.
creator: Hutchison, Ralph Raymond
source: PC 70, Hutchison Studio Photographs
publisher: Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
date: ca. 1935
rights: For permission to publish please contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (509) 335-6691.
format: jpeg
language: English
type: image

Photograph of Bretz expedition from Intermountain Motorist
subject: Geology -- Grand Coulee (Wash.).
description: This page from an article titled "Red Hot Coulees" and inlcudes a photograph of J. Harlen Bretz leading a field trip to explain his theory to a group of geologists and journalists. The article was printed in the September 1928 issue of Intermountain Motorist.
source: Intermountain Motorist, volume 1
publisher: Spokane: Inland Automobile Association
date: 1928-09
rights: Copyright may apply
format: jpeg
language: English
type: image

"Big Shots" Pledge Support to Columbia Basin Project
subject: Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.).
description: This photograph from the Spokane Chronicle features members of the Colmbia River Development League, including James O'Sullivan, Rufus Woods, and Senator C. C. Dill. The Columbia River Development League formed in support of a dam built at Grand Coulee to spur agricultural development in the Columbia Basin and industrial development in Central Washington.
creator: Spokane Chronicle
source: Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Collection
publisher: Spokane: Spokane Chronicle
date: 1931-06-29
rights: Copyright may apply
format: jpeg
language: English
type: image

Lister Gave First Push to Columbia Project
subject: Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.).
description: This cartoon presents the story of the Grand Coulee Dam from conception to the eventual decision by the United States Congress to fund construction of the dam. This narrative emphasizes the role of advocates of the Gravity Plan, like Governor Ernest Lister and the Columbia Basin Irrigation League. The irony here, is that the Gravity Plan was in competition with the plan to build a dam at Grand Coulee and thus the efforts of many featured in the cartoon were at times in conflict with the eventual building of the dam.
creator: Armstrong, Lang
source: Cage 247, Roy G. Gill Papers
publisher: Spokane: Spokesman Review
date: circa 1933
rights: Copyright may apply
format: jpeg
language: English
type: image

Map outlining Gravity Plan
subject: Irrigation -- Washington (State) -- Columbia River Valley.
description: This map taken from a 1925 brochure illustrates the series of tunnels and dams designed to channel water from the Pend Oreille River to the Columbia Basin. By maintaining a path that moved water downhill, the Gravity Plan proposed to irrigate the Columbia Basin without the use of pumps. This brochure was created by the Columbia Basin Irrigation League, who championed this plan throughout the 1920s.
creator: Columbia Basin Irrigation League
source: Cage 563, J. Orin Oliphant Papers
publisher: Spokane: Dyer Printing Company
date: 1925
rights: Copyright may apply
format: jpeg
language: English
type: map

Panorama of the Dry Falls System
subject: Geology -- Grand Coulee (Wash.).
description: This photograph of the Dry Falls system in Washington State illustrates the sort of gouging that Bretz felt could only be caused by a catastrophic flood.
creator: Bretz, J Harlen
source: Bulletin, number 45
publisher: Olympia : Department of Conservation
date: 1959
rights: Public Domain
format: jpeg
language: English
type: image

Reconnassaince Topographic and Geologic Map of Grand Coulee Washington
subject: Geology -- Grand Coulee (Wash.).
description: This map was in The Grand Coulee by Bretz to illustrate his belief that the coulees in the region were created by a cataclysmic flood, as opposed to gradual processes, such as glaciation or wind erosion. The pink areas on the map illustrate a series of interconnected channels through which flowed the waters of a massive flood.
creator: Bretz, J Harlen
source: Grand Coulee
publisher: New York, N.Y., American Geographical Society
date: 1932
rights: Copyright may apply
format: jpeg
language: English
type: map

Plaque dedicated to J. Harlen Bretz
subject: Bretz, J. Harlen.
description: This plaque dedicated to J. Harlen Bretz for his work in explaining the topography of Eastern Washington is located outside the Dry Falls Visitor Center.
date: 1994
rights: Copyright may apply
format: jpeg
language: English
type: image

A general map of the discoveries of Admiral de Fonte & others
subject: Northwest, Pacific -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
description: In 1708 a London magazine, The Monthly Miscellany, published a letter signed by Admiral Bartholomew de Fonte. He claimed to have crossed North American from the Pacific to Hudson Bay through the legendary northwest passage. Joseph-Nicholas de l'Isle accepted the story together with Russian discoveries in Alaska. It took 20 years to disprove this map which was published as late as 1784.
creator: Gentleman's Magazine
source: Gentleman's Magazine
publisher: London
date: 1754
rights: Public Domain
format: map (documents)
language: English
type: jpeg
identifier: G640_1754 _I85_front

Nose worm
subject: Parasites -- Early works to 1800.
description: This page features two etchings illustrating worms supposedly extracted from a person's nose. The example on the bottom of the page is noteworthy for its depiction of a smiling, horned organism that can invade human nasal passages.
creator: Andry de Bois-Regard, Nicolas
publisher: Paris: Lambert & Durant
date: 1741
rights: Public Domain
format: jpeg
language: English
type: image

Panotti from Nuremberg Chronicles
subject: World history -- Early works to 1800.
description: This illustration shows a member of a race of people called the Panotti. They were initially described by Pliny the Elder in his Historia Naturalis as living in the islands off Scythia.
creator: Schedel, Hartmann
source: Nurenberg Chronicles
publisher: Nuremberg: Anton Koberger
date: 1500
rights: Public Domain
format: jpeg
language: English
type: image

Diagram of solar orbit over a flat earth
subject: Astronomy -- Curiosa and miscellany.
description: This diagram illustrates how the sun illuminates the Earth in Samuel Rowbotham's model of a flat Earth. The book that contains this drawing was published in 1881, well after the vast majority of Western civilization dismissed the notion. Rowbotham called his observations "zetetic astronomy" and believed the curvature of the Earth was an optic illusion.
creator: Rowbotham, Samuel Birley
source: Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe!
publisher: London, Day
rights: Public Domain
format: jpeg
language: English
type: image

Diagram of a hollow Earth
subject: Cosmogony -- Early works to 1800.
description: This diagram illustrates Thomas Burnet's theory that the lack of sufficient surface water to account for Noah's flood could be explained if the Earth were hollow.
creator: Burnet, Thomas
source: Theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things.
publisher: London : Printed by R[oger]. N[orton]. for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop's-Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard.
date: 1697
rights: Public Domain
format: jpeg
language: English
type: image