¶ Dymaxion Airocean World Map (1)
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Dymaxion Airocean World Map:
"universal law; i.e., 'that no new invention of a spherical
projection could be made and therefore that no patent could
be issued for projection inventions as all mapping was a design
synthesis within the already demonstrated mathematical arts,’
–this now discovered random element set of great circles,
hitherto undetected by mathematicians permigs of constructing
and graphing a three-way great circle triangular systematically
and infinitely subdividing the internal area while always
symmetrically subdividing the enclosing arcs occurring within
this particular equi-sixty-degree-great-circle-arc spherical
triangle and within this triangle only.
"True surprise discovery of principle and useful means of
interpolating its employment, which combination of initiative
we call invention, has thus occurred, which therefore permits
of allowable patent claimage on my projection system.
"I thought you ought to have this information even though you
may not contemplate any immediate employment of the principles.
…Your continual, up-to-date, re-editing of geographical
data represents a factor of progress of incalculable proportion–
the kind of factor that can determine the degree of happy issue
of these epochal
¶ Citations
- RBF Ltr. to Gilbert Grosvenor, Wash, DC.; 29 Apr’43 days."
