The 1569 Mercator map did not merely misrepresent Africa’s size—it mutilated its dignity and incapacitated its destiny. From ...

The African Union backs a campaign to replace the Mercator map with a more accurate projection that reflects Africa’s true ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

The African Union has backed mounting calls to discontinue the Mercator map, which inaccurately shrinks Africa’s true ...

For centuries, Africa has been systematically erased through the hegemonic Western cartographic gaze, its territorial ...

In 1569 a Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator devised a map on which loxodromes appear as straight lines. This map quickly became the standard for nautical purposes.

Image via Tartu University Library One of the grandfathers of modern navigation Gerardus Mercator is being rightly celebrated in Google Doodle form today in honour of his 503rd birthday.

Gerardus Mercator: Google doodle celebrates cartographer who created world atlas Mercator also created an important mapping technique Kashmira Gander Wednesday 04 March 2015 22:59 GMT 0 Comments ...

The Mercator map, created by Gerardus Mercator back in 1569, has been noted for its size exaggerations of continents in the northern hemisphere, including a North America and Europe that are ...