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All points along a given azimuth will project along a straight line from the center, and the angle θ that the line subtends from the vertical is the azimuth angle. Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www. From the map’s patent, we know the author was aware and in full knowledge that the map was just a projection of the spherical Earth, contradictory to the claims in his book. It has the useful properties that all points on the map are at proportionally correct distances from the center point, and that all points on the map are at the correct azimuth (direction) from the center point. If the azimuthal equidistant projection map is centered about a point whose antipodal point lies on land and the map is extended to the maximum distance of 20,000km (12,427mi) the antipode point smears into a large circle.

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The antipode for Los Angeles is in the south Indian Ocean hence there is not much significant distortion of land masses for the Los Angeles centered map except for East Africa and Madagascar. The shadow [earth] casts on the moon during an eclipse is round, regardless of where the moon is in the sky,” Steffen said. Goldhaber-Gordon added that this experiment would show that “locations close to the south pole appear far apart on the map,” although that is not the reality. On page 350, he mentions “a new map of the world as it is” and says, “it contains all the continents and principal islands and rivers of the world, also, all the principal cities of the earth.Goldhaber-Gordon said GPS is “based on not only an (approximately) spherical earth but also the special and general theories of relativity” that “would make no sense in any flat earth picture,” which is why anyone using GPS is relying on the roundness of the earth. A projection of a person on a page is also flat (see Jeff Brown’s ‘Flat Stanley’ character), but people aren’t flat,” Bennett said.

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Charles Bennett, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, said that representing a 3D object such as the earth in 2D is impossible “on the flat pages of an atlas,” which is why projections are used, but they are not accurate depictions of the earth’s shape. A point on the globe is chosen as "the center" in the sense that mapped distances and azimuth directions from that point to any other point will be correct.NASA has published images of the earth from space, noting the “ancient Greeks believed the Earth was round and calculated its circumference with remarkable accuracy” ( here).

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The answer is one in which the North Pole appears at the center of the north side of the phonograph record, with longitude lines spreading out equally from it where the scale on each longitude line is uniform, and similarly for the south side. The extorsion of the map from that of a globe consists, mainly in the straightening out of the meridian lines allowing each to retain their original value from Greenwich, the equator to the two poles. Greenland appears as large as South America even though it covers only one seventh the area on the globe. The idea for the new map projection came from a recent paper I wrote, “ Envelope Polyhedra,” introducing new class of regular polyhedra in which polygons are allowed to appear back-to-back.GeographicLib provides a class for performing azimuthal equidistant projections centered at any point on the ellipsoid. A thin box could hold flat double-sided maps of all the major objects in the solar system, or a stack of Earth maps giving physical and political data.

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That point, ( φ 0, λ 0), will project to the center of a circular projection, with φ referring to latitude and λ referring to longitude. Scientific American maintains a strict policy of editorial independence in reporting developments in science to our readers.Before photographic proof was possible, Eratosthenes measured the earth’s shadow cast by a stick during the summer solstice to calculate the circumference of the earth ( here.