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

[Gerald I. Evenden]

On Sunday 15 November 2009 10:46:05 am OvV_HN wrote:
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> - 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=August
>e+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.
>
>
> REPLY:
>
> Interesting! Mr. Tissot was the inventor of the Tissot indicatrix.
> I knew that, but it's amusing to see a key publication.
> I couldn't get it from Google; probably 'cos I'm not registrered?
> I got the Google pdf from the Internet Archive:
> http://www.archive.org/details/mmoiresurlarepr00tissgoog
> See the link "All Files: HTML".
> BTW: page 198 is unsharp at the right.
> Pages 199-285 are apparently forbidden - they are not in the pdf.

All the pages are in the copy I downloaded!!!

> There's no copyright on the book, so why should Google omit these pages?
>
> Oscar van Vlijmen

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