Flattening The Earth
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Flattening The Earth
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Author : John P. Snyder
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1997-12-05
Flattening The Earth written by John P. Snyder and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-05 with History categories.
Cartographers have long grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem, mapmakers have created map projections. This work discusses and illustrates the known map projections from before 500BC to the present, with facts on their origins and use.
Flattening The Earth
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Author : John P. Snyder
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1993-10-01
Flattening The Earth written by John P. Snyder and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-10-01 with Science categories.
As long as there have been maps, cartographers have grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem mapmakers have created hundreds of map projections, mathematical methods for drawing the round earth on a flat surface. Yet of the hundreds of existing projections, and the infinite number that are theoretically possible, none is perfectly accurate. Flattening the Earth is the first detailed history of map projections since 1863. John P. Snyder discusses and illustrates the hundreds of known projections created from 500 B.C. to the present, emphasizing developments since the Renaissance and closing with a look at the variety of projections made possible by computers. The book contains 170 illustrations, including outline maps from original sources and modern computerized reconstructions. Though the text is not mathematically based, a few equations are included to permit the more technical reader to plot some projections. Tables summarize the features of nearly two hundred different projections and list those used in nineteenth-and twentieth-century atlases. "This book is unique and significant: a thorough, well-organized, and insightful history of map projections. Snyder is the world's foremost authority on the subject and a significant innovator in his own right."—Mark Monmonier, author of How to Lie with Maps and Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Flattening The Earth
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Author : John Parr Snyder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Flattening The Earth written by John Parr Snyder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with categories.
The World Is Flat Further Updated And Expanded Release 3 0
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Author : Thomas L. Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2007-08-07
The World Is Flat Further Updated And Expanded Release 3 0 written by Thomas L. Friedman and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-07 with Political Science categories.
Explores globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political.
The Man Who Flattened The Earth
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Author : Mary Terrall
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2006-05-05
The Man Who Flattened The Earth written by Mary Terrall and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-05 with Science categories.
Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, philosopher, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. Offering an elegant and accessible portrait of this remarkable man, Mary Terrall uses the story of Maupertuis's life, self-fashioning, and scientific works to explore what it meant to do science and to be a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe. Beginning his scientific career as a mathematician in Paris, Maupertuis entered the public eye with a much-discussed expedition to Lapland, which confirmed Newton's calculation that the earth was flattened at the poles. He also made significant, and often intentionally controversial, contributions to physics, life science, navigation, astronomy, and metaphysics. Called to Berlin by Frederick the Great, Maupertuis moved to Prussia to preside over the Academy of Sciences there. Equally at home in salons, cafés, scientific academies, and royal courts, Maupertuis used his social connections and his printed works to enhance a carefully constructed reputation as both a man of letters and a man of science. His social and institutional affiliations, in turn, affected how Maupertuis formulated his ideas, how he presented them to his contemporaries, and the reactions they provoked. Terrall not only illuminates the life and work of a colorful and important Enlightenment figure, but also uses his story to delve into many wider issues, including the development of scientific institutions, the impact of print culture on science, and the interactions of science and government. Smart and highly readable, Maupertuis will appeal to anyone interested in eighteenth-century science and culture. “Terrall’s work is scholarship in the best sense. Her explanations of arcane 18th-century French physics, mathematics, astronomy, and biology are among the most lucid available in any language.”—Virginia Dawson, American Historical Review Winner of the 2003 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society
The Causes And Effects Of The Earth S Climate Changes
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Author : Bogdan Jacek Góralski
language : en
Publisher: Bogdan Jacek Góralski
Release Date : 2023-03-22
The Causes And Effects Of The Earth S Climate Changes written by Bogdan Jacek Góralski and has been published by Bogdan Jacek Góralski this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-22 with Art categories.
I dedicate my book to people who are hungry for knowledge, who will build the future world and achieve the goal of evolution
Cosmos
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Author : Alexander von Humboldt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1852
Cosmos written by Alexander von Humboldt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1852 with Astronomy categories.
The Problem Of The Earth S Shape From Newton To Clairaut
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Author : John L. Greenberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-07-28
The Problem Of The Earth S Shape From Newton To Clairaut written by John L. Greenberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-07-28 with Science categories.
This book investigates, through the problem of the earth's shape, part of the development of post-Newtonian mechanics by the Parisian scientific community during the first half of the eighteenth century. In the Principia Newton first raised the question of the earth's shape. John Greenberg shows how continental scholars outside France influenced efforts in Paris to solve the problem, and he also demonstrates that Parisian scholars, including Bouguer and Fontaine, did work that Alexis-Claude Clairaut used in developing his mature theory of the earth's shape. The evolution of Parisian mechanics proved not to be the replacement of a Cartesian paradigm by a Newtonian one, a replacement that might be expected from Thomas Kuhn's formulations about scientific revolutions, but a complex process instead involving many areas of research and contributions of different kinds from the entire scientific world. Greenberg both explores the myriad of technical problems that underlie the historical development of part of post-Newtonian mechanics, which have only been rarely analyzed by Western scholars, and embeds his technical discussion in a framework that involves social and institutional history politics, and biography. Instead of focusing exclusively on the historiographical problem, Greenberg shows as well that international scientific communication was as much a vital part of the scientific progress of individual nations during the first half of the eighteenth century as it is today.
Map Projections
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Author : L M Bugayevskiy
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2013-12-19
Map Projections written by L M Bugayevskiy and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-19 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Map projection concerns the science of mathematical cartography, the techniques by which the Earth's dimensions, shape and features are translated in map form, be that two-dimensional paper or two- or three- dimensional electronic representations. The central focus of this book is on the theory of map projections. Mathematical cartography also take
Dynamics Of The Earth S Evolution
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Author : Roman Teisseyre
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2016-01-21
Dynamics Of The Earth S Evolution written by Roman Teisseyre and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-21 with Science categories.
This sixth volume in the monograph series Physics and Evolution of the Earth's Interior presents the problems of the mature evolution of the Earth's interior. It provides comprehensive coverage of the present state of the mantle convection theory. The relations between paleomagnetism, plate tectonics and mantle convection theory are discussed. A more general view of the evolution based on the thermodynamics of irreversible processes is also given. This book will interest geophysicists, geologists, geodesists and planetologists.