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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arno Peters, a German historian, believed that the Mercator projection was more popular because it made northern European countries larger than their opponents in the southern hemisphere ...

The Most Politically Correct Map. When the German filmmaker Arno Peters criticized the Mercator map in 1973 for being colonial, he also presented an alternative.

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.

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.” ...

More commonly known as the Peters projection, it was published in 1974 by Dr. Arno Peters. It’s an “equal-area” map, borrowed from the work of 19th century Scotsman James Gall, which means it ...