Abstract
IT is very satisfactory to find that at the present time care is being taken that the principles of map projection are being studied as soon as the use of maps is seriously undertaken. At one time this part of their subject was much neglected by geographers, and left to those whose mathematical aptitude was especially developed. In this book Miss Adams aims at meeting the needs of the secondary and the higher elementary schools; and in clear and simple language sets forth the difficulties of an adequate cartographical representation of the earth's surface. Simple explanations are given of the principal types of projection, and then the distortion of the original spheroidal surface when it is represented on a plane surface is explained, and the compromises which have to be adopted are set forth. After this preliminary exposition, into which no mathematics enter, there follows a more detailed discussion of the principal zenithal, conical, and cylindrical projections, as well as certain special projections. These are illustrated by diagrams, and the explanation which is given of each should enable anyone to obtain a clear idea of the essential character of each kind.
A Little Book on Map Projection.
By Mary Adams. Pp. viii + 108. (London: George Philip and Son, Ltd., 1914.) Price 2s. net.
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A Little Book on Map Projection . Nature 94, 197 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094197a0
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