The great map debate : Peters contre Mercator | The National
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In 1973, a German amateur historian sparked a storm of controversy by claiming to have invented a whole new way of looking at the world. At a press conference at the United Nations in New York, Arno Peters condemned the standard rectangular map of the world as a symbol of the subjugation of the Third World. The time had come, said Peters, for a new type of map - one that properly represented the Third World.
