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Created by James Gall in 1855 and published by Arno Peters in 1974, it is an equal-area map projection. But while it accurately depicts the relative sizes of landmasses and oceans, countries still ...

‘US, China, India can all fit into Africa’: On a quest to fix the world map Commonly used projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is ...

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.” ...

'Map wars' break out in the 1970s when left-wing journalist Arno Peters claims that the world map shown in most atlases was a lie that short-changed the developing world.

The Gall-Peters Projection, one of the new maps recommended in Nebraska Law, was first developed by James Gall, a Scottish clergyman, in 1855. German Arno Peters brought attention to it in the 1970’s.

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 ...

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, suggesting ...

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