The Mercator and Stereographic Projections, and Many in Between
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We consider a family of conformal (angle preserving) projections of the sphere onto the plane. The family is referred to as the Lambert conic conformal projections. Special cases include the Mercator map and the stereographic projection. The techniques only involve elementary calculus and trigonometry.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The American Mathematical Monthly
دوره 119 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012