People my age grew up with a map of the world that had been created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. But in ...

This map is an example of the Gall-Peters Projection, which takes care to demonstrate accurate relative size and location of nations around the world. This map was adopted for use in the Boston Public ...

However, it is impossible for two-dimensional maps to show the actual size ... a map with the real size of the continents would simply be unusable. It’s the Mercator’s projection,” explained ...