18TH & 19TH CENTURY PROJECTIONS TESTED ON WILLIAM SMITH MAPS

There is some information available regarding commonly used late 18th century and early 19th century projections. John Snyder (Flattening the Earth; Two Thousand Years of Map Projections, The University of Chicago Press, 1993) gives a good account of these projections. His were the projection listings that were tested on the Smith and Cary maps used in the project.