This map shows that in reality, Brazil is almost as large as Canada, even though it appears to be much smaller on Mercator maps. Thinking about the world in two-dimensions also distorts our ideas ...

When many people picture a map of the world, what they're probably thinking of is a Mercator projection, a representation that despite its apparent distortions has been around more than 400 years.

Languages: English, Spanish Think about a map of the world. The image you're picturing will most likely resemble the Mercator projection—a 2D representation of the globe created in the 1500s ...

By Joshua Sokol Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime. The Mercator was devised by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The Winkel Tripel, the map style favored by ...

The classic Mercator Projection ... about the meaning of the unusual map, with many propsing it’s critical of those who think they have a handle on the world. Not only was a court jester able ...

The Equal Earth World Map builds off previously released maps like the Mercator projection map and the Gall-Peters projection map. However, these two maps had problems of their own. The first ...

It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator ...

Historical maps, like this world map from the Portolan Atlas by Battista ... and longitude in the second century A.D., while Gerardus Mercator’s 16th-century world projection remains influential ...

You can laugh, but many of us have stopped paying attention to the world around ... mathematics, Mercator figured out the best trick yet to represent the surface of a globe on a map—by gradually ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ...