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 ...

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish ...

Greenland is particularly exaggerated on a Mercator map and appears to be larger than ... and the Greeks located the navel of the world in Delphi. That pattern of egocentrism is also a reminder ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection. It did a good ...

For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world ...

One of the most popular world map projections is known as the Mercator Projection. You’ll have seen it loads of times and likely thought it looked perfectly normal. It was originally invented by ...

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...