MEDIEVAL DISTORTIONS: THE PROJECTIONS OF ANCIENT MAPS

Tobler, Waldo Rudolph

MEDIEVAL DISTORTIONS: THE PROJECTIONS OF ANCIENT MAPS

dc.contributor.author	Tobler, Waldo Rudolph	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2010-06-01T19:13:51Z
dc.date.available	2010-06-01T19:13:51Z
dc.date.issued	1966-06	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Tobler, W. R. (1966). "MEDIEVAL DISTORTIONS: THE PROJECTIONS OF ANCIENT MAPS." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 56(2): 351-360. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/72414>	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0004-5608	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1467-8306	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/72414
dc.description.abstract	. Estimates of the map projection employed for an ancient map is a prerequisite for a variety of other studies. The preliminary evaluation presented here has yielded empirical equations for the Hereford map and illustrated the agreement of a Portolan chart with an oblique Mercator projection.	en_US
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dc.publisher	Blackwell Publishing Ltd	en_US
dc.rights	1966 by Association of American Geographers	en_US
dc.title	MEDIEVAL DISTORTIONS: THE PROJECTIONS OF ANCIENT MAPS	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel	Geology and Earth Sciences	en_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel	Science	en_US
dc.description.peerreviewed	Peer Reviewed	en_US
dc.contributor.affiliationum	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	en_US
dc.description.bitstreamurl	http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72414/1/j.1467-8306.1966.tb00562.x.pdf
dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/j.1467-8306.1966.tb00562.x	en_US
dc.identifier.source	Annals of the Association of American Geographers	en_US
dc.identifier.citedreference	R. E. Dahlberg, “ Maps without Projections,” The Journal of Geography, Vol. 60 ( 1961 ), pp. 213 – 18.	en_US
dc.identifier.citedreference	E. Imhof, “ Beitrage zur Geschichte der topographischen Kartographie ” International Yearbook of Cartography, 4 ( 1964 ), pp. 129 – 53.	en_US
dc.owningcollname	Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed

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