Book:Raúl Ibáñez/The Dream of the Perfect Map
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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