| Description |
xviii, 365 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Flattening the earth : two thousand years of map projections / John P. Snyder. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1: Emergence of Map Projections: Classical Through Renaissance -- The Classical and Medieval Legacy: Map Projections Developed before the Renaissance The Equirectangular Projection -- The Trapezoidal Projection -- Ptolemy's Three Projections -- Globular Projections -- The Earliest Azimuthal Projections -- New Projections of the Renaissance -- New Conic Projections -- Oval Projections -- Globelike Projections -- Mercator's Projection for Navigators -- The Sinusoidal Projection -- 2: Map Projections in an Age of Mathematical Enlightenment, 1670-1799 -- Eighteenth-Century Use of Earlier Map Projections -- The Equirectangular Projection -- The Trapezoidal Projection -- The Azimuthal Projections -- The Mercator Projection -- The Sinusoidal Projection -- The "Bonne" Projection -- The New Projections -- Map Projections as an Emerging Mathematical Science -- Perspective Projections with Low Error -- Some Modified Globular Projections -- The Improved Simple or Equidistant Conic Projection -- Murdoch's and Euler's Approaches to the Equidistant Conic Projection -- Colles's Perspective Conic Projection -- Cassini and His Transverse Equidistant Cylindrical Projection -- Lambert's Cornucopia of Important Projections -- 3: Map Projections of the Nineteenth Century -- Nineteenth-Century Use of Earlier Projections -- Cylindrical and Rectilinear Projections -- Azimuthal Projections -- Conic and Sinusoidal Projections -- The Globular Projection -- The New Projections of the Nineteenth Century -- New Cylindrical Projections -- New Pseudocylindrical Projections -- New Conic Projections -- New Azimuthal Projections -- Modified Azimuthal Projections -- Globular Modifications -- Conformal Innovations -- Star Projections -- Conformal Projections without Singular Points -- Polyhedric and Polyhedral Projections -- Tissot's Optimal Projection -- Fiorini's Projections -- The Jervis Cycloidal Projection -- Projections to Promote Commerce -- General Treatises and Journals -- The Tissot Indicatrix -- 4: Map Projections of the Twentieth Century -- Twentieth-Century Use of Earlier Projections -- Cylindrical Projections -- Pseudocylindrical Projections: The Sinusoidal and Mollweide -- Azimuthal Projections -- Conic Projections -- Other Earlier Projections -- New Twentieth-Century Projections -- Cylindrical Projections -- New Pseudocylindrical Projections -- New Azimuthal Projections -- New Modified Azimuthal Projections -- New Pseudoazimuthal Projections -- Modifications of the Stereographic Projection -- New Conic Projections -- Pseudoconic Projections -- Other Projections -- General Works and Journals -- Notes -- References and Bibliography -- Index -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Map projection History |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 313-347 |
| Subject |
Map projection -- History.
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| LC no. |
92036750 |
| ISBN |
0226767469 |
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