Portraits of the Earth: A Mathematician Looks at Maps. (Book Review).(Book Review) (book review)
Portraits of the Earth: A Mathematician Looks at Maps. Timothy G. Feeman. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2002. xiii and 123 pp., maps, diags., tables, bibliography, appendices and index. $26.00 softcover (ISBN 0218-3255-7. Also, vol. 18 in the series: Mathematical World, ISSN 1055-9426).
For thousands of years humans have felt compelled to record what they knew (or wished they knew). Drawing a map is an effective way of recording spatial information and as papyrus, then parchment and finally paper became available, the maps were drawn on these thin flat
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