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Dymaxion Airocean World Map (1)

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Dymaxion Airocean World Map:

"universal law; i.e., 'that no new invention of a spherical

projection could be made and therefore that no patent could

be issued for projection inventions as all mapping was a design

synthesis within the already demonstrated mathematical arts,'

--this now discovered random element set of great circles,

hitherto undetected by mathematicians permigs of constructing

and graphing a three-way great circle triangular systematically

and infinitely subdividing the internal area while always

symmetrically subdividing the enclosing arcs occurring within

this particular equi-sixty-degree-great-circle-arc spherical

triangle and within this triangle only.

"True surprise discovery of principle and useful means of

interpolating its employment, which combination of initiative

we call invention, has thus occurred, which therefore permits

of allowable patent claimage on my projection system.

"I thought you ought to have this information even though you

may not contemplate any immediate employment of the principles.

....Your continual, up-to-date, re-editing of geographical

data represents a factor of progress of incalculable proportion--

the kind of factor that can determine the degree of happy issue

of these epochal

Citations

  1. RBF Ltr. to Gilbert Grosvenor, Wash, DC.; 29 Apr'43 days."

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