The relative complexity of this projection (involving latitude expansion) meant that a trigonometric coordinate transformation method must have been used.
I wish he wrote plainly, he must have expected his audience to be mostly scholars who wouldn't mind studying through all this jargon
How did we ever use this term? Apart from racism, its misleading and disorienting. I wish someone could go back and replace all uses of it not indicating people from India
Quetzalcoatl was credited with the invention of the advanced mathematical and calendrical formulae that the Maya were later to use to calculate the date of doomsday.19