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Item Details
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FLATTENING THE EARTH
TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF MAP PROJECTIONS |
| By: |
John P. Snyder |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£44.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226767469 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226767468 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 1993 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
A detailed history of map projections which 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 made possible by computers. |
| Synopsis: |
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 a detailed history of map projections. 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 made possible by computers. |
| Illustrations: |
163 maps and charts, 11 portraits |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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