Talk:Cassini projection

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 * Edits made, including new (and striking) image. Strebe (talk) 04:21, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:07, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Soldner?
Would it be too much to ask for an explanation for why the projection is also known as Soldner projection and who this person was?

PS I found:
 * The Cassini-Soldner projection is the ellipsoidal version of the Cassini projection for the sphere.

PPS: This is the guy: Johann Georg von Soldner.

--2A02:908:898:9780:9F78:CB6E:C222:8519 (talk) 04:38, 8 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Flattening the Earth described Soldner's and Cassini's respective contributions, so I added it to the lede. Justin Kunimune (talk) 00:40, 9 November 2023 (UTC)