Maps today strike us as fairly innocuous charts of the world. ... Into this world came Flemish mapmaker Gerard Mercator (1512–1594), whose new technique forged modern cartography as we know it.

Map of The World on Mercator's Projection National Museum of American History. Click to open image viewer. ... map prints, map set of 2 print Object Type Photomechanical Lithographic Processes ...

Mercator’s map inadvertently also pumps up the sizes of Europe and North America. Visually speaking, Canada and Russia appear to take up approximately 25% of the Earth’s surface, when in ...

Whenever you glance at a flat world map, you should take what you see with a grain of salt. One in particular, known as the Mercator projection, distorts the actual sizes of landmasses like Alaska and ...

The well-known Mercator projection, which created a square map of the world by stretching the polar regions, received a score of 8.296 on their scale.