Which optical distortion increased when medieval astrolabes projected celestial coordinates onto smaller discs?

💡 Explanation

Pincushion distortion increases especially when projecting wide angles onto smaller planes because the Mercator projection expands areas increasingly away from the center, therefore, distortions at the edges worsen rather than simply chromatic or spherical defects.

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