John P. Snyder (1926–1997)

Indeholder "List of Illustrations", "Preface", "Chapter One: 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", " Conclusions", "Chapter Two: 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", " Conclusions", "Chapter Three: 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", " Conclusions", "Chapter Four: 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", " Conclusions and Outlook", "Notes", "References and Bibliography", "Index".
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