[Proj] Mémoire sur la représentation des surfaces et les projections des cartes (Auguste Tissot, 1881)

[Paul B. Anderson]

- Charles,

Thanks for the Google books trick! I'll use it from now on.

One of the books in my personal library is:
J. H. Lambert's 'Notes and Comments on the Composition of Terrestrial and 
Celestial Maps',
Translated and Introduced by Waldo R. Tobler, 1972

Published by the University of Michigan,
Department of Geography
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

Dr. Tobler gave me the copy I have, and I have no idea where one could find 
another.

- Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karney, Charles" <ckarney at Sarnoff.com>
To: "PROJ.4 and general Projections Discussions" <proj at lists.maptools.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:23 PM
Subject: RE: [Proj] Mémoire sur la représentation des surfaces et les 
projections des cartes (Auguste Tissot, 1881)


Thanks for the pointer.  Indeed Google Books is a treasure trove for old
books.  One other oldie is

    Johann Heinrich Lambert 1772
    Beyträge zum Gebrauche der Mathematik und deren Anwendung,
    http://books.google.com/books?id=sf82AAAAMAAJ

This is only part 3; I couldn't find the other parts on Google.

I have found 2 problems with Google Books

(1) The indexing of books is rather hit-or-miss.  This is particularly a
problem when searching for journal articles (some journals appear with
variant of the title, the volume number isn't listed in the search
results, etc.).

(2) The scanning is sometimes hit-or-miss.  Some pages are accidentally
skipped.  Fold-out pages of figures are not folded out.  Etc.

For this reason, it would be great if someone could start compiling a
bibliography of online books and papers on projections.  I started such
a bibliography for geodesics at

    http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/wiki/GeodesicCalculations#TheHistory

(which now has 75 entries) and several of the works I include (by Gauss,
Helmert, etc.) deal with projections.

BTW, the URL for Tissot's book can be shortened to

    http://books.google.com/books?id=a5YOAAAAYAAJ

  --Charles
--
Charles Karney <ckarney at sarnoff.com>
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ 08543-5300

Tel: +1 609 734 2312
Fax: +1 609 734 2662
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From: proj-bounces at lists.maptools.org [proj-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On 
Behalf Of Paul B. Anderson [pbander at cavtel.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 10:04
To: PROJ.4 and general Projections Discussions
Subject: [Proj] Mémoire sur la représentation des surfaces et les 
projections des cartes (Auguste Tissot, 1881)

- Hi everyone,

If there is any interest here, Google has scanned the French text:
Mémoire sur la représentation des surfaces et les projections des cartes
By Auguste Tissot (1881)

http://books.google.com/books?id=a5YOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Auguste+tissot&ei=LAoAS-_lFaD2ygT9vOz3Dg#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Note that in Google's PDF download version there are about 7 blank pages
between the book cover and where the text begins.

Take care,
- Paul