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Paperback Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections Book

ISBN: 0226767477

ISBN13: 9780226767475

Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections

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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 the first detailed...

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