poorer nations near the equator. Of course, Peters had a suggestion on how to fix this problem: his own map. The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion.

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is still used by scientists to map objects in the sky. Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible ...

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See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don ... but it makes landmasses further from the equator appear larger than they actually are. The Gall-Peters projection map addressed ...