File:Da Vinci-Cahill-Tyler World Map Projection.jpg

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English: This a projection of the world map developed by Christopher Tyler as an improvement on Bernard Cahill's modification of the octant projection originated by Leonardo da Vinci, for uploading to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections. Unlike all other projections, it has all continents close to undistorted in both size and shape with all parts intact.
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This is in a category for which Wikipedia has no button - This file is adapted solely by me from a free-use source. I constructed it from Wikipedia Orthographic projection images such as:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa#/media/File:Africa_(orthographic_projection).svg

Previously published: Tyler, C.W. "Leonardo da Vinci's World Map", Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy,13, 2 (2017),
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English: Designed for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections.

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