It’s all down to the European cartographer Geert de Kremer, better known as Mercator, and his 16th century map ... to the advantage of the West. On the Mercator map, Africa – sitting on ...

Monte’s depiction of Japan is oddly shaped and oriented east to west instead ... the vision of a 16th century cartographer is exactly the sort of thing the new map center at Stanford was set ...

Knowledge is power—and no knowledge was more assiduously coveted by European nations in the early 16th century ... appear on the map: gray Senegal parrots in West Africa contrasting with the ...

Online maps provided by Google, Microsoft and others use the Mercator projection to display the world. In doing so they perpetuate huge distortions in how the Earth is seen. The 16th-century ...

Genetic and chemical analyses have now traced those tusks back to several distinct herds of forest elephants that once roamed West Africa ... picture of the 16th century ivory trade on the ...