Forty years ago, a German historian named Arno Peters published a world map that he described as a rebuttal to four centuries of faulty cartographic thinking. Peters believed that too much modern ...

Introduced at a conference in Germany in 1974, historian Arno Peters' map aims to fix the Mercator's inaccuracies, which vastly exaggerate the size of land masses approaching the north and south ...

Date of map: August 15, 2011 ... The Gall-Peters projection was created by James Gall and Arno Peters in 1855. Date of map: August 15, 2011 ...

Professor Arno Peters. Arno Peters was not a cartographer. Yet he is best known, some would say notorious, for his creation of the Peters' World Map. Representing our globe on a flat piece of paper is ...

In 1973, Arno Peters, a German filmmaker and journalist, called a press conference to denounce the widely accepted map of the ...

When I'm stuck at home, I spend a great deal of time looking at maps, plotting my next move, imagining trips I will never take, rediscovering the location of the Caspian Sea or just admiring the ...

In 1973, Arno Peters, a German filmmaker and journalist, called a press conference to denounce the widely accepted map of the world known as the “Mercator Map.” Peters’s position was that ...

When I’m stuck at home, I spend a great deal of time looking at maps, plotting my next move, imagining trips I will never take, rediscovering the location of the Caspian Sea or just admiring the ...

Developed by German historian Arno Peters in 1974, the map uses mathematical calculations to transfer the three-dimensional globe to a flat surface.

The revised map—known as the Peters projection—was introduced in 1974 by the German historian Arno Peters as a more accurate alternative to the Mercator.

The Gall-Peters projection with Tissot's indicatrix. Wikimedia Commons You may remember this map from season two, episode 16 of "The West Wing," when a group of cartographers visit the White House ...