The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...
The part that really stayed with me is the ‘Ecuascope’ room - a floor-to-ceiling exhibit that aligns the equator to the stars, and exposes the arbitrariness of our world map. Despite the north ...
We use imaginary lines to help locate where a place is in the world. the Arctic Circle (the ... the Tropic of Cancer the Tropic of Capricorn and the Equator. I’ve been asked to deliver this ...