Dymaxion map
Dymaxion map Unfolded Dymaxion map with nearly-contiguous land masses. The Dymaxion map of the Earth is a ...
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Map projection
Map projection The Mercator projection shows courses of ... it drastically inflates the high latitudes. A map projection is any method used in cartography ... the two-dimensional curved surface of the earth or other body on a plane. The ... refers to any function defined on the earth's surface and with values on the ... projection. Flat maps could not exist without map projections. Flat maps can be more ...
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Map projection   (translated from German)
Map projection One Map projection one of many different methods is ... which one the curved surface (three-dimensional) Earth on the flat (two-dimensional) Map transfers. This process that Concept happens by ... the geo data infrastructure (technology and terminology) map projections form a special kind of ...
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World map
World map Physical world map (2004) with country borders and capitals--click ... for large, 2 MB version A world map is a map of the surface of the Earth, which may be made using any ...
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Category:Images of map projections
Category:Images of map projections Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Map projections For more information, see the article about Map projections. Pages in category "Images of map projections" There are 0 pages in this ... File missing Craig-retroazimuthal... 23,944 bytes Dymaxion map folded.... 65,340 bytes Dymaxion ...
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Buckminster Fuller
... to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how. Considering himself an ... eight books, coining terms such as "spaceship earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also made a ... his professional collaborators, one example being the Dymaxion Car project. His international recognition was established ... systemic worldview (see 'Operating manual for Spaceship Earth', 'Synergetics') and explored principles of energy and ... his analysis of the condition of "Spaceship Earth" led him to conclude that at ...
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User talk:Anthere/Gaia theory
... Many religious mythologies had a view of Earth as being a whole that is greater ... American Indian religions). Lewis Thomas held that Earth should be viewed as a single cell ... view from Johannes Kepler's view of Earth as a single round organism. Teilhard de ... his observations and artifacts, e.g. the Dymaxion Map of the Earth he created, others ...
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Gall-Peters projection
Gall-Peters projection Peters map The Peters World Map or Gall-Peters projection is an orthographic equal-area map projection of the earth. It was published in 1885 by James ... Arno Peters, a historian, first presented his map in 1967 as a 'new invention', ...
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Gaia philosophy
... after Gaia, the Greek goddess of the Earth) is a broadly inclusive term for related ... Many religious mythologies had a view of Earth as being a whole that is greater ... Native American religions). Lewis Thomas held that Earth should be viewed as a single cell ... view from Johannes Kepler's view of Earth as a single round organism. Teilhard de ... his observations and artifacts, e.g. the Dymaxion map of the Earth he created, ...
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Globe
... a planet, star or moon, in particular Earth, or, alternatively, a spherical representation of the ... Globes are the only geographical representation of Earth that have no distortion. Spheres such as the Earth are mapped onto a flat surface using a map projection with an inherent degree of distortion ... globe is roughly 1:40 million. The Earth is the most popular planet represented, ...
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