Download or read book A Little Book on Map Projection written by William Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Little Book on Map Projection written by William Garnett and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flattening the Earth written by John P. Snyder and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-12-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartographers have long grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem, mapmakers have created map projections. This work discusses and illustrates the known map projections from before 500BC to the present, with facts on their origins and use.
Download or read book A Little Book on Map Projection written by Mary Adams and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Little Book on Map Projection Classic Reprint written by Mary Adams and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Little Book on Map Projection This little book is intended for the use of pupils in Secondary Schools, Central Schools, Higher Elementary Schools, and the Senior classes of those ordinary Elementary Schools in which special attention is given to practical geography. Apart from the Appendix, except in one paragraph which is not essential, no knowledge is assumed of even the Trigonometrical ratios. In the Appendix a few examples are given of the application of higher mathematics to map projection. The writer is indebted for much information to the work on Map Projections by Arthur R. Hinks, M. A., F. R. S. (Cambridge University Press, 1912). The student who desires to calculate map projections other than those of the simplest type, or to estimate the errors of scale or form in any map, should study Mr. Hinks' book. The object of the present writer is description rather than calculation and, except for the sake of illustration in the Appendix, only the simplest calculations have been used. A special feature is that all the projections, except Fig. 15, are drawn to the scale of a globe two inches in diameter, which differs from the scale of 1: 250,000,000 by only one quarter per cent. The projections are, therefore, directly comparable one with another. The reader is advised to draw the projections contained in this book, or parts of them, to the scale of the school globe and to compare the meridians and parallels with those on the globe for different latitudes and longitudes. A few illustrations have been introduced from mechanics, physics, and geometry, which may appear to have but a very remote connection with geography, but they will afford subjects for lessons which will appeal to many pupils, and lead to an increased interest in map projection. It is very undesirable that the subjects of school study should be separated by "water-tight bulkheads." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Little Book on Map Projection Scholar s Choice Edition written by Mary Adams and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Elements of Map Projection with Applications to Map and Chart Construction written by Charles Henry Deetz and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of Map Projection with Applications to Map and Chart Construction written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliography of Map Projections written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of Map Projection with Applications to Map and Chart Construction written by Charles Henry Deetz and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhumb Lines and Map Wars written by Mark Monmonier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rhumb Lines and Map Wars, Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator's legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth's roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator's projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines—clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing—for true direction. But the projection's popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse—often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways—for wall maps, world atlases, and geopolitical propaganda. Because it distorts the proportionate size of countries, the Mercator map was criticized for inflating Europe and North America in a promotion of colonialism. In 1974, German historian Arno Peters proffered his own map, on which countries were ostensibly drawn in true proportion to one another. In the ensuing "map wars" of the 1970s and 1980s, these dueling projections vied for public support—with varying degrees of success. Widely acclaimed for his accessible, intelligent books on maps and mapping, Monmonier here examines the uses and limitations of one of cartography's most significant innovations. With informed skepticism, he offers insightful interpretations of why well-intentioned clerics and development advocates rallied around the Peters projection, which flagrantly distorted the shape of Third World nations; why journalists covering the controversy ignored alternative world maps and other key issues; and how a few postmodern writers defended the Peters worldview with a self-serving overstatement of the power of maps. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars is vintage Monmonier: historically rich, beautifully written, and fully engaged with the issues of our time.
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881 1900 written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Maps written by Lloyd Arnold Brown and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important and scholarly work; bringing together much information available heretofore only in scattered sources. Easily readable." — Gerald I. Alexander, F.R.G.S. Cartographer, Map Division, New York Public Library. The first authoritative history of maps and the men who made them. The historical coverage of this volume is immense: from the first two centuries A.D. — Strabo and Ptolemy — through the end of the 19th century, with some discussion of 20th-century developments. 86 illustrations. Extensive notes and bibliography. "Mr. Brown felicitously marries scholarship to narrative and dramatic skill." — Henry Steele Commager.
Download or read book Plane and Geodetic Surveying for Engineers written by David Clark and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the American Geographical Society written by American Geographical Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
