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Greenland Looks So Huge on Maps, Here’s the Distortion That’s Been Trickling Us All Along!
Greenland appears much larger than it actually is on most world maps, thanks to the Mercator projection, a centuries-old map ...
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Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map
In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...
THE subject of map projections is one in which the English language is strangely deficient, a deficiency the more apparent when contrasted with the wealth of Continental literature on the subject.
CNN Election History presents historical election results on maps that represent the 48 contiguous states, Alaska, and Hawaii. CNN uses a Web Mercator map projection in the Election History ...
Science: Ptolemy's 'Geography, ' c. AD 150 -- Exchange: Al-Idrīsī, AD 1154 -- Faith: Hereford 'Mappamundi, ' c. 1300 -- Empire: Kangnido World Map, 1402 ...
When Christopher Columbus first set foot in what's now the Bahamas, it was the lucky sum of a 1,400-year-old cartographical error and Columbus's own miscalculations ...
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