Howe's system was similar to raised letters designed by James Gall in Edinburgh, Scotland in the 1820s.
The Gall stereographic projection, presented by James Gall in 1855, is cylindrical projection.
The Gall–Peters projection was first described in 1855 by clergyman James Gall, who presented it along with two other projections at the Glasgow meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (the BA).
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The Gall–Peters projection, named after James Gall and Arno Peters, is one specialization of a configurable equal-area map projection known as the equal-area cylindric or cylindrical equal-area projection.
He named the premises 'Myrtle Bank', because his friend James Gall of Trinity living in Edinburgh had a fine property of the same name.
James Gall's "triangular alphabet," using both capital and lower-case, which was used in 1826 in the first embossed books published in English
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