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Monday 11 October 2021

This excellent video from 1947 uses a grapefruit to show map distortion

Flat maps distort the spherical Earth. By how much, exactly? This 1947 film draws a world map on a grapefruit and unpeels it in various ways to show how the land masses' sizes and shapes change when they get projected on a flat surface. — Read the rest



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