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Pages: 384
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Cartographers have long grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem, mapmakers have created map projections
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Language: en
Pages: 682
Authors: Thomas L. Friedman
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-07 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Map Projections
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: L M Bugayevskiy
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-06-28 - Publisher: CRC Press

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Map projection concerns the science of mathematical cartography, the techniques by which the Earth's dimensions, shape and features are translated in map form,
The Man Who Flattened the Earth
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Authors: Mary Terrall
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, philosopher, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment
The Power of Place
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Harm J. De Blij
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Harm de Blij contends in this book that geography continues to hold us all in an unrelenting grip and that we are all born into natural and cultural environment