As you will see in the two works that follow this item in your list, this process does not work right. A round object does not transform itself to a flat surface without damage. The Greeks began this process because they were the first to understand the round earth concept. Prior to that, and later for some, a flat earth does not have the same problem.
Roundness is the trouble.
The most famous example of this is the fact that generation of Americans believe that Greenland is a large island that many think is a continent. Greenland is really sort of small compared to its image. The difference is that a distorted Mercator map sat in front of so many school kids for so long that image became reality, and it is wrong. They determine that image hence the basis for geographic concepts in the minds of people. While geographers might have been the only academic group to consider the problems, these now impact people in many other fields to which grade 9-12 students aspire.