> "Is the world in good shape?" is the title of Simon Calder's feature for
> last Saturdays' 'The Independent : Traveller' (p.2). [possibly online
> also, if anyone has the time to look and to inform]. With a b&w ill. of
> the 'Peters world map' it reviews - with quotes from Terry Hardacre - the
> re-issue by 'New Internationalist' of 'The Peters world atlas'. Simon
> Calder, at least, correctly credits James Gall with the equal-area
> projection which Armo Peters plundered and for the invention of which he
> claimed for himself. No mention, however, of Lambert a century before
> Gall (some people might well say of Peters: "of all the gall...").
>
> Francis Herbert
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