Maps and map-making; three lectures delivered under the auspices of the Royal geographical society (1910)
Reeves, Edward Ayearst, 1862-1945, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) · London, The Royal geographical society · leaf 130
for showingastronomical problems. If, instead of the eye being supposed to be at an infinitedistance from the sphere, as in the orthographic projection,we imagine it placed on the sphere itself, as at Q in thediagram (Fig. 106), then again, supposing the sphere to betransparent and lines to be… … Fig. 106.—Stereographic Projection. crrepeog, solid, and ypdcjico,to write). This would show the greatcircles passing through the centre of the projection as straightlines, and all the others by circles, or sections of circles, whichwould be compressed towards the centre of the map, insteadof…
Cartography · Surveying
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