Like most maps, this one has a projection, and Lambert's conformal conic is the name of the equation behind, below, and between every flattened shape on this beautiful America. It's not perfect ...

IT is very satisfactory to find that at the present time care is being taken that the principles of map projection ... the principal zenithal, conical, and cylindrical projections, as well as ...

The map is drawn on Murdoch's third conical projection and extends from Western Europe, the British Isles and Iceland east to Rangoon and south to Abyssinia. It will fit obliquely with two ...

The thing is, it’s not accurate. When this world map was charted in the 1600s according to the Mercator’s projection, the idea was that ships could use the lines of longitude and latitude as a ...