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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."
