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Article: Portraits of the Earth: A Mathematician Looks at Maps. (Book Review).(Book Review)
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 American Geographical Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Portraits of the Earth: A Mathematician Looks at Maps. Timothy G. Feeman. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2002. xiii and 123 pp., maps, diags., tables, bibliography, appendices and index. $26.00 softcover (ISBN 0218-3255-7. Also, vol. 18 in the series: Mathematical World, ISSN 1055-9426).
For thousands of years humans have felt compelled to record what they knew (or wished they knew). Drawing a map is an effective way of recording spatial information and as papyrus, then parchment and finally paper became available, the maps were drawn on these thin flat sheets. Since classical times it has been known that the earth's surface is not flat, but more ...
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