For those who only know the name Mercator through the controversial map projection that bears his name, historian Andrew Taylor has done a great service. In “The World of Gerard Mercator ...

Although many old maps are available to collectors for modest sums, this is quite a rare collection containing Gerard Mercator's 1595 map of Scandinavia and other cartographic masterpieces ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Mercator's innovative map employed a cylindrical projection ideal for maritime navigation, given the inherent difficulty of accurately portraying a sphere's surface on a flat plane without some ...

A NEW map of the world has claimed to show countries in their ‘correct’ size – meaning all other maps could be wrong. A Met Office scientist has compiled the map using official da… ...

This phenomenon can be attributed to the Mercator projection, a map most commonly seen hanging in classrooms and in text books, which was created in 1596 to help sailors navigate the world.

Boston schools are changing maps. The city's school district, with 57,000 students in 125 schools, is switching from the Mercator projection map to the Peters projection in classrooms.

On most maps, Greenland looks almost as big as the entire continent of Africa. It's not. ... In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection.