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 ...

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

The Gall-Peters Projection 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.” ...

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.” ...

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 a more complex ...

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 ...

Arno Peters criticized it in 1973 by saying, “It overvalues the white man and distorts the picture of the world to the advantage of the colonial masters of the time.” ...

Greenland shrank in 1983 because of the introduction of a new world map, commonly called the Peters Projection. It was popularized by Arno Peters, a German historian and filmmaker who died in ...

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

The Gall-Peters Projection. | Strebe, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1973, Arno Peters, a German filmmaker and journalist, called a press conference to denounce the widely accepted map of ...

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 ...