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More8/4/20
Why do most world maps depict north up top? And how does that tendency shape our perceptions of what is valuable or superior? Gary Nunn explains.
Read more from www.abc.net.au8/5/20
Area preserving projections of the surface of a sphere onto a plane will also tend to be population preserving projections.
It is not surprising at the Peters projection better represents population density.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall–Peters_projection
8/5/20
Incidentally, the mathematics of the Peter's projection is the same mathematics that makes it possible to ride a tricycle with square wheels on a bumpy road.
The Texas A&M Physics Department's square -wheeled trike, built by the machine shop. The trike rides on a road of repeated pieces of an inverted catenary.
8/5/20
It is also related to the inverted pendulem problem, wihich finds application in the segway.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pendulum
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/3-Segway-is-one-of-inverted-pendulum-applications_fig3_330825329
8/5/20
I'd love to see a world map inverted, or at least with the southern hemisphere accentuated and highlighted, so we could see the regions not usually depicted. I mean, the early navigators managed to get around both South America and Africa, but world maps don't even give Antarctica hardly a blip.
8/6/20
8/6/20
Wow! Thanks, it saved me from retrieving and lifting two pound books, and dusting them off.
I always thought that information is too North Hemisphere influenced. Glad you can give a scope from your side of the world.