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scan of book Portraits of the Earth, a mathematician looks at maps by Timothy G Feeman [2002] {526--dc21} Chapter material:- Geodesy, measuring the Earth Map projections Scale factors Distances and shortest paths on the sphere Angles, triangles and aera on the sphere Curvature of surfaces Classical projections Equal-area maps Conformal maps Analysis of map distortion Oblique perspectives Maps of surfaces of revolution
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