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Herbert P wrote:
"John B. Snyder, "Flattening the Earth", UCP 1997, is an excellent choice."
For what it's worth, I agree completely. Lots of good history in it, too.
Zvi Doron replied:
"I am mainly interested in visual representations of how the
projection is created (cone, cylinder etc. and where he 'light' is coming
from) and what the resulting graticule looks like. Also, how suitable it is
for various types of navigation and what would be the appearence of great
circles, small circles and Rhumb lines."
Have you looked at a Bowditch on map projections? Not bad for that sort of
thing (the most recent I have is from 1966 and I haven't checked later ones).
-FER
http://www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
