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Peirce Quincuncial

 

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  Peirce Quincuncial
Creator Charles Sanders Peirce (1879)
Group Miscellaneous
Property Conformal
Other Names
Remarks The equator (red line in the image) is a square whose corners are the only four points on the map which fail to be conformal.

In the image, the map is centered to 20° West.

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