Known as a "planisphere," the map is aligned in a “north polar azimuthal projection,” meaning that the North Pole is at its center. When he published his work in a four-volume, geographic ...

although designed after the introduction of the Mercator projection — the presentation most commonly used today — the nobleman elected for a polar azimuthal projection, which situates the ...

But unlike the Mercator projection, Monte's map shows the world from directly above above the North Pole — a perspective now known as the north polar azimuthal projection. "The projection is ...

Monte’s map is circular, with the North Pole at the center and lines of longitude radiating outward from there—what modern cartographers call a polar azimuthal projection, a very unusual ...

The illustrations are good and some are ingenious, notably the plate showing a comparison of five zenithal polar projections ... orthodromic or two-point azimuthal projection.

A globe on a two-dimensional screen seems pretty dull compared to map projections that look like armadillos, butterflies, or deconstructed polygons. The azimuthal orthographic (as it's formally ...

“For example, Mercators projection is true to scale only along the equator, and azimuthal projection is limited to convergence of the meridians at one pole at a time. Other known systems of ...

By their calculations, the Mercator projection scores 8.296 and Winkel Tripel does better at 4.563. Their own azimuthal equidistant double-sided projection, meanwhile, scores 0.881. “We believe ...