![]() ![]() The major contributing factors to this form of mapping error are the actual variations in elevation of the earth's terrain and the earth's curvature. Seems the ol' CIA is very interested in aerial photography, and did a lot of work on aerial cameras which could automatically correct for earth's curvature. So anyway, I was curious and searched the site for the word "cuvature", and got some hits. It seems to be a translation of some particular word for "sky". Yes, some translated Russian documents from the International Geophysical Year contain the word "firmament" □. They compiled this oh so creepy presentation of some excerptsīut atypically for them, left all the source info attached, which is how I got here. In which they've apparently been searching for words like "firmament" and "flat earth", and they've gotten some hits, similar to doing this at a NASA documents website.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |