Turns out the map on your classroom wall has been lying harder than a freshman explaining why his essay smells like tequila.

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

If the past is a different country, then a look back to 1980s Ireland might seem like examining a distant continent yet to be mapped by Gerardus Mercator.

Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish geographer who designed the map in the 16th century, that projection shows meridians as parallel lines, which made the picture simple to display on walls and ...

Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish geographer who designed this map in the 16th century, this projection shows meridians as parallel lines, which made the picture simple to display on ...

His world view, it turns out, comes directly from Gerardus Mercator, whose cartographic projection on the surface of his landmark map exaggerates the poles – just the right metaphor for this ...

March 5 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include: -- Mapmaker Gerardus Mercator in 1512 -- Antoine Cadillac, founder of Detroit, in 1658 -- Poet Lucy Larcom in ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection.