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nodux: B.J.S. Cahill (Bernard Joseph Stanislaus Cahill, 1866-1944), cartographer and architect, was the inventor of the octahedral “Butterfly Map” (published 1909; patented 1913) His Butterfly World Map, like Buckminster Fuller’s later Dymaxion Map of 1943 and 1954, enabled all continents to be uninterrupted, and with reasonable fidelity to a globe.

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B.J.S. Cahill (Bernard Joseph Stanislaus Cahill, 1866-1944), cartographer and architect, was the inventor of the octahedral “Butterfly Map” (published 1909; patented 1913) His Butterfly World Map, like Buckminster Fuller’s later Dymaxion Map of 1943 and 1954, enabled all continents to be uninterrupted, and with reasonable fidelity to a globe.

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