Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Rhetoric of Perspective: Ptolemy

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Ptolemy's third cartographic method shows circles at solstical latitudes, as ellipses viewed in perspective. Thus the diameter of an ellipse in perspective does NOT go through the center of the ellipse, AND the area above the ellipse is not the same area as the area below the ellipse.

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