![]() ![]() It is the ‘Eurocentric’ character of most previous maps to which German historian Arno Peters most objects - a distortion produced and reinforced, he says, by ‘four centuries of European world domination’. Most of us assume that this is what all maps do anyway - so we may be surprised to learn that Europe, which on the traditional ‘Mercator projection’ looks larger than South America, is in reality only half its size. Its most attractive aspect is that it presents all countries according to their true surface areas. ![]() Arno Peter’s new projection of the world was first published back in 1974 and since then has produced its share of both controversy and converts.
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