Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections - John P. Snyder - Google Books

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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…