Keywords
map drawing
history of cartography
perfect map
Leonhard Euler
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
foliation
How to Cite
Abstract
I consider some questions related to Euler’s work on cartography and its consequences, in which the foliations of the sphere by meridians and parallels play important roles.
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