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 ...

Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...

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.

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 ...