Reaching the North Pole was a fantasy of the ancients ... His world view, it turns out, comes directly from Gerardus Mercator, whose cartographic projection on the surface of his landmark map ...

Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish geographer who designed this map in the 16th century, this projection shows ... from Santa would pick the North Pole. That’s changing, as the ice ...

Whether you realize it or not, you're probably pretty familiar with the Mercator projection. It's the chosen map of Google, and often displayed in classrooms around the country. But Boston public ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...