In addition to the map’s size problem, several critics of it say that the wide use of Mercator’s system shows a cultural bias. Arno Peters, a German historian, believed that the Mercator ...

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 ...

You may remember this map from season two ... every school in America to teach geography using the Gall-Peters instead of the Mercator. Don't worry, the show's press secretary C.J. Cregg didn ...