Claudius Ptolemy, World Map, 150 AD Al-Sharif al-Idrisi, World Map, 1154 Richard of Haldingham, ... In 1973 the German historian Arno Peters published this new map projection which, ...

In the case of the most common map projections used today, what gives is the size of places near the poles. ... In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection.

Researchers are projecting the world’s population to peak in 2080, with more than 10.13 billion people on Earth, before the population begins to drop. New human population projections were ...