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 ...

The 16th-century cylindrical projection ... area. This approach displays the size of countries accurately but still distorts their shapes, and has failed to become widely adopted (see our map ...

The map you're familiar with, that pretty much everyone has a copy of somewhere, is called the Mercator Projection ... but if you remove the cylindrical distortion, you find it's not actually ...

The reason why certain countries look bigger or smaller than others is because of the Mercator Projection. This is a cylindrical map projection that was presented by the Flemish geographer and ...

This effect is seen on the Mercator Projection, a cylindrical map projection of our world. RealLifeLore fills in the background of what we forgot in school about map size and then drops in fun and ...

Peters’s position was that the Mercator Projection—a cylindrical projection ... the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion. Because Peters’s map showed the size of developing nations ...