Visually, the Aitoff and Hammer projections are very similar.
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The "'Hammer projection "'is a map projection described by Ernst Hammer in 1892.
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While Hammer was careful to cite Aitoff, some authors have mistakenly referred to the Hammer projection as the Aitoff projection.
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Three years later, Ernst Hermann Heinrich Hammer suggested the use of the Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection in the same manner as Aitoff, producing the Hammer projection.