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Spherical projection

Particular mapping that projects a sphere onto a plane

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    A treatise of the sphere; shewing how it is deriv'd from that theory which justly asserts the motion of the Earth: as also of the projections of it, both orthographical and stereographical Demonstrating their properties from fundamental propositions, and shewing their uses. With the resolution of astronomical and chorographical problems. By the Late Reverend John Witty M.A. and chaplain to His Grace the Duke of Devonshire.

    Witty, John | Date: 1734
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    Tracts: containing I. Mechanics, or the doctrine of motion. II. The projection of the sphere. III. The laws of centripetal and centrifugal force / [William Emerson].

    William Emerson | Date: 1793

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