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On the construction of geographical maps: Lagrange, Chebyshev, Darboux and Milnor
Hideki Miyachi, Ken'Ichi Ohshika, Athanase Papadopoulos
Lagrange, Chebyshev, and Darboux, in 1779, 1856, and 1911, respectively, wrote articles all bearing the same title, \emph{On the Construction of Geographical Maps}. In 1969, Milnor…
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On the Lambert conformal conical projection and the general map of the Russian Empire
Hideki Miyachi, Ken'Ichi Ohshika, Athanase Papadopoulos +1
The problem of drawing geographical maps is the one of mapping a subset of the sphere, representing a country or some other region on the surface of the Earth, into the Euclidean p…