Book:Raúl Ibáñez/The Dream of the Perfect Map

Raúl Ibáñez: The Dream of the Perfect Map: Cartography and mathematics

Published $\text {2017}$, National Geographic

ISBN 978-84-473-8931-5

National Geographic "Our Mathematical World" series: $26$

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. The Shape of the Earth

Chapter 2. The Dimensions of the Earth

Chapter 3. Meridians, Parallels and Great Circles

Chapter 4. In Search of an Accurate Map of the Earth

Chapter 5. The Archimedes Projection or Lambert Equal-Area Cylindrical Projection

Chapter 6. The Central or Gnomonic Projection

Chapter 7. Stereographic Projection

Chapter 8. What Euler Told the Cartographer

Chapter 9. The Mercator Projection

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index