[Proj] Müffling

[Irwin Scollar]

An interesting historical link to Müffling and 
Tranchot which has biographies of both men and 
some details on their work which I have not seen elsewhere is:

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mlcarl/Qu/Karten/Tranchot.htm

A link to the work of Müffling and the early 
Prussian map projection with a brief description of it's history is:

http://www.geog.fu-berlin.de/2bik/Kap4/kap4_1-05.php3

It's application in the Rhineland is:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographische_Aufnahme_der_Rheinlande

Scans of the original maps can be found at the 
GeoPortal of North-Rhine Westphalia:

http://www.tim-online.nrw.de/tim-online/initParams.do;jsessionid=615820C15DD0F8AB73AD2368A8295302

under the topic Historische Karten-Tranchot 1801-1828

While searching, I also learned from the Polish 
historical military mapping site:

http://english.mapywig.org/news.php

that early Imperial Russian maps used the Müffling polyhedric projection:

http://english.mapywig.org/Russian_and_Soviet_maps_EN.htm

Please post additional links related to the theme of Müffling's work.


Irwin Scollar