Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections

by John P. Snyder

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226767477
• ISBN13: 9780226767475
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.4"