Werner projection
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The Werner projection is a pseudoconic equal-area map projection sometimes called the Stab-Werner or Stabius-Werner projection. Like other heart-shaped projections,{{specify|date=February 2024}} it is also categorized as cordiform. Stab-Werner refers to two originators: Johannes Werner (1466–1528), a parish priest in Nuremberg, refined and promoted this projection that had been developed earlier by Johannes Stabius (Stab) of Vienna around 1500.
The projection is a limiting form of the Bonne projection, having its standard parallel at one of the poles (90°N/S).{{citation | title = Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections | first = John P | last = Snyder | year = 1993 | pages = 60–2 | ISBN = 0-226-76747-7}}.{{citation |author-mask= 8 | url = https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/pp/pp1395 | contribution = Map Projections—A Working Manual | publisher = United States Geological Survey | title = Professional Paper | number = 1395 | first = John P | last = Snyder | year = 1987 | pages = 138–0}}. Distances along each parallel and along the central meridian are correct, as are all distances from the north pole.
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Maps with Stab-Werner projection}}
- {{citation | url = http://www.radicalcartography.net/?projectionref | title = Table of examples and properties of all common projections | publisher = Radical Cartography|ref=none}}.
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