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One of the best-known is the Gall–Peters Projection (pictured). 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 map, observers pointed out, was only distorted differently: Where the Mercator projection makes areas near the poles appear much larger, the Peters projection relatively represents accurate ...

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.

People my age grew up with a map of the world that had been created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. But in 2024, Nebraska law mandated that those Mercator projection maps needed to ...

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, 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 ...