Whether you realize it or not, you're probably pretty familiar with the Mercator projection. It's the chosen map of Google, and often displayed in classrooms around the country. But Boston public ...

This is due to the Mercator Projection, a map type dating back to 1569, introduced by Geradus Mercator. It's a cylindrical projection derived mathematically, with horizontal parallel straight ...

But the map is larger ... after the young Gerardus Mercator, destined to become the century's most influential cartographer, decided that the whole of the New World, not just its southern ...

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is ... cartographers (map makers) to show all or part of the Earth’s curved surface on a flat surface. The Mercator map projection ...

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 ...

Glaciers are melting faster than ever. As the planet gets hotter, our frozen world is shrinking, making the water cycle more unpredictable. For billions of people, meltwater flows are changing ...