Because the Earth is roughly spherical, every flat map distorts our planet one way or another. The most popular version is the Mercator projection, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus ...

Think about a map of the world. The image you're picturing will most likely resemble the Mercator projection—a 2D representation of the globe created in the 1500s which most maps you commonly ...

Colton's 1852 map of the world uses the Mercator projection, cutting off the highly distorted poles. Printed for J & H Miller, Columbus, Ohio. Credit: Wikimedia Commons ...

Its unorthodox shape resists the skew compromises of other projections. “As the earth is a spherical body, so the only true cartographic representation of its surface must be spherical.

That is because projection mapping's older, ... Projection onto flat and cylindrical/spherical surfaces has a much older history and goes back to the invention of cinema. "1969 ...

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