> Can anyone tell me, on behalf of a colleague, how to find out the
> history of stereographic projection, and perhaps also some other
> projections. For example, just when was stereo projection introduced,
> and by whom.
See John P. Snyder's book <i>Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of
Map Projections.</i> Stereographic projection is discussed there on pp.
20-29. (He attributes the name 'stereographic projection' to d'Aguillon
in 1613 and the first published proof of the conformality of stereographic
projection to Edmund Halley in 1695/96.)
Dr. John W. Dawson, Jr.
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