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The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish

by Mark Chew southernwoodenboatsailing.com published 2021-05-26

When Mr Lewin began explaining how cartographers addressed the challenge of portraying what is essentially a three dimensional object - the world - on a two dimensional plane - a piece of paper - my eyes lit up!

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