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.

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 ...

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 ...