The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a 16th century rendering that preserved lines used for navigation while hideously distorting the true ...

EVER since Wegener published in 1915 his remarkable theory of the drift of the continents and the movement of the poles, most of us have viewed a map of the world with entirely different eyes ...

It preserves the proportions of continents and oceans as they're actually arranged on our round planet, yet it's laid out on a 2-D surface. Flat maps must distort some properties of the planet's ...

It started to break apart around 200 million years ago and eventually formed the continents and oceans we know today. Continents are in motion because heat from the radioactive processes within ...

THE wide appeal of Prof. Wegener's theory of the arrangement of ocean and continent is shown by, the issue of a third greatly revised edition and of this excellent English translation. His theory ...

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