The Map Of The World Is Wrong: Web • 9 min read most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. Web fourteen greenlands could fit in africa— but you wouldn't guess it from most maps of the world. But these mental maps aren’t.
The Map Of The World Is Wrong
Web • 9 min read most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. Web the mercator projection, created by flemish geographer and cartographer gerardus mercator in 1569, was a revelation half a millennium ago and remains the most widely used flat depiction of earth,. Fourteen greenlands could fit in africa— but you wouldn’t guess it from most maps of the world.
The Map Of The World Is Wrong: Web thinking alaska was as big as brazil? Web the world is not as it seems, humanity has been brainwashed by a flemish mapmaker, and we’re (probably) living in a colonial matrix. You can thank the representation of the world printed onto maps.
