topics: |  cartography | math

This old-fashioned book starts off with how to make a straight-edge (you can
fold a paper, but you can plane two pieces of wood, then align them to
check for gaps between them, etc.  Goes on to deal with the main
projections. Though a number of recent projections such as Peters' is of
course missing, it remains a good introductory text on the geometry of
projections.