When we look at the map we studied in school and we put special focus on Greenland and then watch the African continent seem almost the same size, but in reality Africa has an area 14 times than Greenland. Does
ation explained? The earth is like a geoid (so an attachment area at the poles and broadened by Ecuador), ie three dimensions, while a map is a two dimensional plane. To make the transformation from three to two dimensions, we must resort to some geometric calculations called projections. There are over 400 different and none accurately represents our planet.
just can not keep all aspects of land on a map, you have to use a distortion, whether air, angle, distance, trying to play with the distortions and leave as close as possible. The
Mercator projection is one of the best known and most widely used until the twentieth century, mathematically Mercartor projection is very accurate and has the angles but has a problem "is like a cylinder meddle in the globe" so that Ecuador was the only line to play all pinto cylinder on the inside, "If projects after all points of land in that cylinder and unrolled, the equatorial regions would be the only ones not be deformed because they are stuck the cylinder.
But as you move out of Ecuador, the airlines are deformed and enlarged, not being in contact with the cylinder, for fill the entire surface of the flat, there are strains as discussed in Greenland, or explanation of why Alaska looks larger than Mexico when it is not.
In the 70's called 'a German historian Arno Peters brought to light a new world map based on Gall projection, the map went on to sell 80 million copies and some called the "real world map"
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