JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
F.V. Botley’s map of international airline routes–interesting the author points out that the routes have stayed “substantially unchanged for the last two decades”. The (above) is based on a regular octahedron, which opens to a star-shaped design (in figure 2, below) and which is not truly related in the larger map–it is “an oblique gnomonic projection designed on this principle”, making it an easier read. [Source: Journal of Geography, 1956, pg 397.]