Mollweide projection

He invented a map projection called the Mollweide projection.

The Mollweide projection is a pseudocylindrical map projection generally used for global maps of the world (or sky).

Named from the Mollweide projection, an equal area map projection with the parallels and central meridian being straight lines.

The homolosine evolved from Goode's 1916 experiments in interrupting the Mollweide projection.

Mollweide projection, a pseudocylindrical map projection.

In contrast, a parallel interrupted Mollweide projection uses multiple disjoint central meridians, giving the effect of multiple ellipses joined at the equator.

The elliptical shape of the WMAP skymap is the result of a Mollweide projection.

A sinusoidal interrupted Mollweide projection discards the central meridian in favor of alternating half-meridians which terminate at right angles to the equator.

The higher latitudes are the top sections of a Mollweide projection, grafted to the Sinusoidal midsection where the scale of the two projections matches.

Paleomaps Since 600 Ma (Mollweide Projection, Longitude 0)

The Mollweide projection is another equal-area projection of similar aspect, though with straight parallels of latitude, unlike the Hammer's curved parallels.

Isolario contains an oval depiction of the world, a type of map invented by Bordone and later formalized into the equal-area elliptical Mollweide projection three centuries later.

Using the same 2:1 elliptical outer shape as the Mollweide projection, Hammer intended to reduce distortion toward the outer limbs, where it is extreme in the Mollweide.

Xplanet can be used to produce projected maps of any planet (but typically Earth), for example mollweide projections which show the whole earth at once, or mercator projections with a rectangular appearance suitable for filling the screen.

The first of these was his invention of the Mollweide projection of the sphere, a map projection which he produced to correct the distortions in the Mercator projection, first used by Gerardus Mercator in 1569.