Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections

by JPSnyder (Author)

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Paperback
1998
$37.71

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.

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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.

$37.71

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Chicago University Press
Published: 08 Jan 1998
ISBN 10: 0226767477
ISBN 13: 9780226767475