Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people's perceptions of Earth. However, because all flat maps have compromises built into them, ...

Take a look at a map today, and you might think North America is larger than Africa or Greenland is larger than Mexico and China. But that's not true in the slightest. The issue derives from trying to ...

How do you flatten a sphere? For centuries, mapmakers have agonized over how to accurately display our round planet on anything other than a globe. Now, a fundamental re-imagining of how maps can work ...

Whenever you glance at a flat world map, you should take what you see with a grain of salt. One in particular, known as the Mercator projection, distorts the actual sizes of landmasses like Alaska and ...

For years, believers in the flat Earth theory have relied on such irrefutable arguments as, “When I look at the horizon it looks flat.” But now it seems they’re going to have to reassess their entire ...

This map, published by South Dakotan Orlando Ferguson in 1893, offers a unique vision of the Earth as a concave field, with a round convex area in the middle. Surrounded by Bible passages arguing ...

How do you represent the world globe on a flat surface? Can it be done without distorting the sizes of countries and continents and the distances between places? What would it take to make an accurate ...

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