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Flattening the Earth Two Thousand Years of Map Projections

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ISBN-10: 0226767477

ISBN-13: 9780226767475

Edition: 1997

Authors: John P. Snyder

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As long as there have been maps, cartographers have grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem mapmakers have created hundreds of map projections, mathematical methods for drawing the round earth on a flat surface. Yet of the hundreds of existing projections, and the infinite number that are theoretically possible, none is perfectly accurate. Flattening the Earth is the first detailed history of map projections since 1863. John P. Snyder discusses and illustrates the hundreds of known projections created from 500 B.C. to the present, emphasizing developments since the Renaissance and closing with a look at the variety of projections…    
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Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/5/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 0.68" wide x 0.94" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Preface
Emergence of Map Projections: Classical Through Renaissance
The Classical and Medieval Legacy: Map Projections Developed before the Renaissance
The Equirectangular Projection
The Trapezoidal Projection Ptolemy's
Three Projections Globular Projections
The Earliest Azimuthal Projections
New Projections of the Renaissance
New Conic Projections Oval Projections Globelike Projections Mercator's Projection for Navigators
The Sinusoidal Projection
Map Projections in an Age of Mathematical Enlightenment, 1670-1799Eighteenth-Century Use of Earlier Map Projections
The Equirectangular Projection
The Trapezoidal Projection
The Azimuthal Projections
The Mercator Projection
The Sinusoidal Projection
The "Bonne" Projection
The New Projections
Map Projections as an Emerging Mathematical Science
Perspective Projections with Low Error
Some Modified Globular Projections
The Improved Simple or Equidistant Conic
Projection Murdoch's and Euler's Approaches to the Equidistant
Conic Projection Colles's Perspective
Conic Projection Cassini and His Transverse
Equidistant Cylindrical
Projection Lambert's Cornucopia of Important Projections
Map Projections of the Nineteenth Century
Nineteenth-Century Use of Earlier Projections
Cylindrical and Rectilinear
Projections Azimuthal
Projections Conic and Sinusoidal Projections
The Globular Projection
The New Projections of the Nineteenth Century
New Cylindrical Projections
New Pseudocylindrical Projections
New Conic Projections
New Azimuthal Projections
Modified Azimuthal Projections
Globular Modifications
Conformal Innovations Star Projections
Conformal Projections without Singular
Points Polyhedric and Polyhedral Projections
Tissot's Optimal Projection Fiorini's Projections
The Jervis Cycloidal Projection
Projections to Promote Commerce
General Treatises and Journals
The Tissot Indicatrix
Map Projections of the Twentieth Century
Twentieth-Century Use of Earlier Projections
Cylindrical Projections Pseudocylindrical Projections: The Sinusoidal and Mollweide
Azimuthal Projections Conic Projections Other Earlier Projections
New Twentieth-Century Projections
Cylindrical Projections
New Pseudocylindrical Projections
New Azimuthal Projections
New Modified Azimuthal Projections
New Pseudoazimuthal Projections
Modifications of the Stereographic Projection
New Conic Projections
Pseudoconic Projections Other Projections
General Works and Journals
Notes
References and Bibliography
Index