To call Flattening the Earth a detailed history of map projections is akin to calling a dictionary a list of words. Flattening the Earth is almost certainly the most exhaustive, detail-packed, well-written, and well-illustrated compendium of information on the origin and use of map projections ever published.
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Mark P. Kumler (1994) studied this question.