The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

T he Mercator projection of the world map is suited for marine navigation and once so commonplace that generations of schoolchildren thought Greenland was as large as Africa. Though out of fashion ...

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 ...

The Mercator Map Projection was developed by a Flemish ... but it really warped how we view the world. It’s crazy to think that so many of us grew up with such a skewed sense of geography!" ...

But Greenland is not nearly as large as it appears on most maps. The Mercator projection—which has been the standard map projection since the 18th century— is the name for the phenomenon in ...

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 ...