The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

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 ...

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 ...