In the late 1950s, travelers from all over would trek to Coleman Hall and view ... of the Map and Globe Museum to “impress upon students and other viewers an appreciation of the world as a ...

For decades, geography teachers have relied on a more than 400-year-old map that grossly distorts the size of the world’s landmasses ... We’ve had a very fixed view that is very Eurocentric.

I cut open a plastic globe ... accurate view of land area look at the Gall-Peters projection, which preserves area while distorting shape. In the end, there’s not “right” map projection.

It succeeds in presenting a more accurate view of the poles ... He hopes to perform even more subdivisions of his globe to achieve true representations of the continents and ensure the most accurate ...

It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world ... map is so proportionally accurate that you can fold it up into a three-dimensional globe.

This means map-makers need ... which means we can view whole continents or even people’s back gardens. However you look at the world, whether it’s with a globe, atlas or computer, it will ...

You may think you have a pretty good idea of the world map ... The hidden globe is a kind of transfiguration of this map, an accretion of cracks and concessions, suspensions and abstractions ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — A new interactive ...