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Warping Waldseemüller: A Cartometric Study of the Coast of South America As Portrayed on the 1507 World Map
(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-08-29)
In an attempt to shed some light on the problem of Martin Waldseemüller’s portrayal of the shape of South America on his important 1507 world map, polynomial warping algorithms and regression analysis are applied to the ...
How to Map a Sandwich: Surfaces, Topological Existence Theorems and the Changing Nature of Modern Thematic Cartography, 1966-1972
(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2009-03-15)
This paper is meant to be the beginning of a project that examines the use of abstract mathematics and the changing ontology of mapmaking in the early years of the development of computer cartography. The history of the ...