There are about a dozen published variations of equidistant conic map projections. They are identical when using the same actual standard parallels, but the parallels are chosen differently. Greater ...

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 ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

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