The map you are likely familiar with is one based on the Mercator projection, published by cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569.It's a cylindrical map projection, in which you place the globe ...

This map bowed out the equator in an attempt to replicate the topography of a sphere and avoid stretching out areas far from the equator. ... a Tokyo-based architect and artist, broke the globe up ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ...