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EVERY advanced treatise on astronomy defines and explains certain kinds of map projection; but in all these accounts I have been struck with the absence of any notice of the particular kind of projection with which we are most familiar—the kind usually employed for representing the world in hemispheres; in fact, the commonest kind of map projection.
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EVERETT, J. Maps in Theory and Practice. Nature 63, 464 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063464c0
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