Maps during the Middle Ages (around 500 to 1500 ... In a way, map representations will never be entirely accurate due to the inherent challenge of depicting a spherical world on a flat surface ...

and the researchers hope it will become the accepted world map. “Our map is actually more like the globe than other flat maps,” said J. Richard Gott, emeritus professor of astrophysics at ...

Whenever you glance at a flat world map, you should take what you see with a grain of salt. One in particular, known as the Mercator projection, distorts the actual sizes of landmasses like Alaska and ...

A "radically different" flat map of ... the better the map, with a score of 0 being perfect. The well-known Mercator projection, which created a square map of the world by stretching the polar ...