It’s all down to the European cartographer Geert de Kremer, better known as Mercator, and his 16th century map ... to the advantage of the West. On the Mercator map, Africa – sitting on ...

Monte’s depiction of Japan is oddly shaped and oriented east to west instead ... the vision of a 16th century cartographer is exactly the sort of thing the new map center at Stanford was set ...

Knowledge is power—and no knowledge was more assiduously coveted by European nations in the early 16th century ... appear on the map: gray Senegal parrots in West Africa contrasting with the ...

Stanford University experts digitally assembled what is considered the largest world map produced in the 16th-century ... Southern Europe and North Africa. Image via David Raumsey Map Collection ...

Yet in classrooms, newsrooms, publications and boardrooms worldwide, the Mercator projection presents Africa as much smaller than it really is. Designed for 16th-century maritime navigation, the map ...

The Portuguese first began to kidnap people from the west coast of Africa and to take those they enslaved back to Europe. It is estimated that by the early 16th century as much as 10% of Lisbon's ...

Globalisation: the 16th century map was the first to ... which argued the existence of a new land mass to the West, and followed it within a month with the map showing it for the first time ...

Genetic and chemical analyses have now traced those tusks back to several distinct herds of forest elephants that once roamed West Africa ... picture of the 16th century ivory trade on the ...

LAST month Kai Krause, a computer-graphics guru, caused a stir with a map entitled "The True Size of Africa", which showed ... This was not a big problem for 16th-century sailors, of course ...

Online maps provided by Google, Microsoft and others use the Mercator projection to display the world. In doing so they perpetuate huge distortions in how the Earth is seen. The 16th-century ...