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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.
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Flattening the Earth, John P. Snyder
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- 1998
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- Title
- Flattening the Earth
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John P. Snyder
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Publisher
- 1998
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0226767477
- ISBN13
- 9780226767475
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- Nature in general
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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.