Matthew Edney on Nostr: I just encountered R A Proctor's "A Students Atlas" (1889) ... which prefigured 20c ...
I just encountered R A Proctor's "A Students Atlas" (1889) ... which prefigured 20c work by Cahill and Fuller by mapping the earth as a dodecahedron, each facet separately projected as a circle, with blisters or boils for some places ... and each circle is done on azimuthal equidistant, prefiguring Richard Edes Harrison! Need to learn more!!
Fortunately internet archive has a scanned file from UWisc at
https://archive.org/details/studentsatlasin00procgoog/mode/2up#maps #atlas #maphistory #cartography
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