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For decades, geography teachers have relied on a more than 400-year-old map that grossly distorts the size of the world’s landmasses — the byproduct of trying to depict a sphere on a flat ...

The Laurent Ferrier Classic Traveller Globe Night Blue watch draws energy from the LF230.02, a caliber that delivers a 72-hour power reserve.

An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs.

The hidden globe is a mercenary world order in which the power to make and shape law is bought, sold, hacked, reshaped, deterritorialized, reterritorialized, transplanted, and reimagined.

Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't match the real world? Well, that’s because the map you're used to is likely ...

Unlike the standard map of the world, designed in the 1500s, this new map doesn't distort Greenland to make it look the same size as Africa.

MAPS of the world have the impossible task of portraying the Earth—a three-dimensional shape—on a flat sheet of paper. Mapmakers have to choose a projection of the globe that approximates the ...

In his new book, “A History of the World in 12 Maps,” Jerry Brotton looks at twelve examples of mapmaking from the last 2,000 years.The first known world map was inscribed into clay tablets in ...

THIS revolutionary world map may look unfamiliar – but it has been hailed the most accurate 2D depiction of our globe ever made. The clever ‘origami’-style technique solves a cent… ...

The Authagraph World Map: not much use for navigation, but a very clever way of projecting the globe onto a flat surface without size distortion ...

Maps are all imperfect because they portray the globe in just two dimensions. Most maps, like the Mercator projection, distort the size or shape of land masses, which skews our perceptions of how ...