Despite these skills and the many maps and instruments he made, Mercator’s fame rests with his world map of 1569. It did what no other map before it had done: It made it possible for sailors to ...

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't ...

In a fascinating exposé, a visual campaign reveals that the familiar world map we all grew up with is more illusion than fact ...

OUR map of the world hasn’t changed much in centuries ... The flat map, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 is still used today by Google Maps. This map from circa 1798 ...

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT'S been revealed that the world ... Gerardus Mercator in 1569, is still ...

The map that resulted, Mercator’s 1569 map of the world, is about 7 feet tall and shows just how far cartography had come from the mappaemundi. Here one sees a world very close to the one we ...

For many people, the Earth as they know it is heavily informed by the Mercator projection – a tool used for nautical navigation that eventually became the world ... map is meant to be used. In ...

The Flemish map-maker is behind one of the most influential depictions of the globe ever created. His 1569 Mercator projection ... rather than the bottom, of the world. However, Nasa rotated ...

It's one of the most common projections used for world maps. Gerardus Mercator created it in 1569 to help with ship navigation. The map was revolutionary because it straightened both lines of latitude ...