Flattening the earth : two thousand years of map projections

John P. Snyder

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. This study is a detailed history of map projections from before 500BC to the present. It contains a comprehensive collection of diagrams of the projections used in world mapping, with a compendium of information on their origins and use.

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書名 Flattening the earth : two thousand years of map projections
著作者等 Snyder, John Parr
Snyder John P.
出版元 University of Chicago Press
刊行年月 1997
版表示 New ed
ページ数 xviii, 365 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0226767477
NCID BA63956514
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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