| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 4806 |  | Details | Wilcox and Follett Co. | 1944 |
| Advertisement for Octovue Map on Pitner's Projection |
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Wilcox and Follett Co. |
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| 1944 |
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| $350.00 | Wilcox-and-Follett-Co- | Advertisement-for-Octovue-Map-on-Pitner-s-Projection | Scarce color brochure from 1944 explains and promotes Wilcox and Follet Co's Octovue map, their <b>New Air Age Educational -- Indispensable! WORLD MAP.</b> All on one single folding sheet printed front and back with 8 pages total in color. Folded size 5" x 8".
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The Octovue map was one of the few maps to use the Pitner map projection. According to this brochure with the Pitner projection:
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"The globe is divided into eight uniform spherical triangular sections: four North and four South of the equator…. each transposed onto a flat surface. … the first map ever made to transpose the round world onto a flat sheet without distortion or exaggeration of shapes, sizes, and distances."
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Last page details what the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in <i>Elements of Map Projections</i> consider to be the "Ideal Map" and provides reasoning for consideration of the Octovue map over all others.
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Copyright 1944 by L.E. Pitner. Brochure edited by Harold B. Ward Ph.D. F.R.G.S. |