![]() While he was writing his own history of the world, Peters was surprised to discover that there was no map of the world that he considered fair or even scientific - and came to the conclusion that cartographers had produced a ‘faulty school of thought based on false premises’. It is the ‘Eurocentric’ character of most previous maps to which German historian Arno Peters most objects - a distortion produced and reinforced, he says, by ‘four centuries of European world domination’. Most of us assume that this is what all maps do anyway - so we may be surprised to learn that Europe, which on the traditional ‘Mercator projection’ looks larger than South America, is in reality only half its size. ![]() Its most attractive aspect is that it presents all countries according to their true surface areas. ![]() Arno Peter’s new projection of the world was first published back in 1974 and since then has produced its share of both controversy and converts. ![]()
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