Worldview

Not a globe, but an ordered plane.

In this model north is the center, light moves above the earth, and the outer rim does not act as the end of reason, but as the boundary of the known world.

Illustration of a flat earth beneath a firmament dome

Model Scheme

Earth, lights, and dome in one composition

This illustration is not meant as a final technical diagram, but as a summarizing form: a fixed earth below, water layers, heavenly lights above the plane, and an enclosing structure of heaven.

The earth is read as a habitable plane, not a rotating globe.
The sun and moon are local lights traveling their paths above the earth.
The dome or firmament bounds and orders the visible cosmic field.

Spatial Logic

How this map thinks

North as center

Instead of a spherical surface with an imposed projection, the flat-earth model works from a center. That makes east and west natural circular motions around that center.

South as outward direction

In this reading south does not point toward an opposite pole beneath the plane, but toward the outer ring of the known land-and-water field.

Circumnavigation without a globe

East-west journeys are understood as circles around the center, not proof that a globe has been wrapped around.

North-pole-centered map from 1950 — Historic northern map

This public-domain map from 1950 shows how intuitive a north-centered projection can be: distances, routes, and ring-shaped motion take on a very different character than in the classic globe image.
Public domain · source listed in the atlas

USGS diagram of azimuthal equidistant projection — Projection as a memory aid

The USGS scheme is not a flat-earth proof in itself, but it does help show how a flat map logic organizes direction and distance differently than most people expect.
Public domain via the U.S. Geological Survey

Summary

The structure of the model

Element	Function	Website framing
North Pole	Center of the map	Orientation and encirclement are read from this center.
Antarctic rim	Peripheral boundary	Represents the outermost limit of the known earth or its ice structures.
Sun and moon	Local lights	Move above the plane and shape day rhythm, season, and visible path.
Firmament	Enclosing order	Links the world plane to an upper, meaningful structure of heaven.