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Published on Monday, 22 October 2012 14:45
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Maps can help guide us through life, but they also shape how we see the world, for better or worse. Take the classic example of the “Gall-Peters Projection,” created by German historian Arno Peters, based off the work of Scottish evangelical minister and astronomer John Gall, which seeks to represent area accurately — so that areas of the same size on the map appear so, which is not the case for other flat maps of spherical areas. Read More

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