Of course, Peters had a suggestion on how to fix this problem: his own map. The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion. Because Peters’s map ...

This is especially obvious for maps that use certain projections—ways of representing the Earth’s curved surface on a flat map—such as the popular Mercator projection, which could be found ...

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. The U.S. nuclear arsenal is aging, with the newest nuclear weapon in the ...

Of course Peters had a suggestion on how to fix this problem—his own map. The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion. Because Peters’s map ...

A map showing how small some countries really are has left people shocked. Reddit users have been surprised by a map showing the real size of countries was posted on the site, in the week after ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you ...

The map you are likely familiar with is one based on the Mercator projection, published by cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It's a cylindrical map projection, in which you place the globe ...

Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a 16th century rendering that preserved lines used for ...

Save this picture! North Africa. Map by Gabriel de Vallseca, made in 1439. Image via Wikicommons, under public domain Another important projection is the Peters projection, which is also ...