An Introduction to the Study of Map Projections

Abstract

THE author of this book, realising that geographers are not necessarily mathematicians, has attempted to explain the subject of map projections. The construction of the map has frequently been beyond the geographical student. The mathematician could arrive at an understanding of this section, but to others it was a morass where few found the path, and the majority had to be content with an imperfect notion. This book, without any pretence to finality, provides a guide for such geographers. It is introductory in the true sense. It may be urged that the book would be improved by dealing with difficulties as they arise, instead of deferring them-for example, in the zenithal equidistant, the equatorial and oblique cases are postponed to p. 154, whilst the simple polar case is treated on p. 54. The answer to this is that the difficulty is left until the reader is able to deal with such problems. The lucidity of the constructions, geographical and trigonometrical, and the liberal use of figures (even simple cases are illustrated) will be appreciated.

An Introduction to the Study of Map Projections.

By J. A. Steers F. Debenham. Pp. xxiii + 189. (London: University of London Press, Ltd., 1927.) 7s. 6d. net.