Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections

by JPSnyder (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $18.54

  Cartographers have long grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem, mapmakers have created map projections. This work discusses and illustrates the known map projections from before 500BC to the present, with facts on their origins and use.

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $39.36

  Cartographers have long grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem, mapmakers have created map projections. This work discusses and illustrates the known map projections from before 500BC to the present, with facts on their origins and use.