Dymaxion Airocean World Map

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Dymaxion Airocean World Map:

"I am attaching a copy of the world map published by LIFE on

my new universal-hinging projection. I have taken off the

global map onto this new projection in several other ways, for

instance, with the North Pole and again the magnetic North

Pole, and the pole of the ecliptic as centers of triangles

instead of squares. And another takeoff, particularly useful

for navigational purposes, is that in which the vertexes of

squares and triangles coincide at the poles.

"The new projection method is also extremely useful in relating

the astronomical map to the land map of the world. This is

because the spherical angles are all proportionately or

symmetrically reduced when translated to plane geometry and

vice versa; furthermore, every point on my plane geometry

projection is vertically above the universally deployed center

of the earth. All interior points retain their symmetrical

positioning whether graphed in spherical or plane geometry.

Therefore points in the astronomical projections may be made

to occur vertically above points on the earth when they are

actually in zenith, with the triangulation of astronomical

positions usefully related by direct graphical method to the

terrestrial map."

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