Arno Peters (22 May 1916 – 2 December 2002) was a German historian who developed the Peters world map, based on the Gall–Peters projection. Peters was born in Berlin. In childhood he lived in Berlin, Germany, with his brother, Werner and his parents Lucy and Bruno.

The Gall–Peters projection initially passed unnoticed when presented by Gall in 1855. It achieved more widespread attention after Arno Peters reintroduced it in 1973. He promoted it as a superior alternative to the commonly used Mercator projection, on the basis that the Mercator projection greatly distorts the relative sizes of regions on a ...

The Peters map, the work of the German historian Arno Peters, provides a helpful corrective to the distortions of traditional maps. While the Peters projection map is superior in its portrayal of proportions and sizes, its importance goes far beyond questions of cartographic accuracy – it challenges our view of the world.

2019年11月21日 · German historian and journalist Arno Peters called a press conference in 1973 to announce his "new" map projection that treated each country fairly by representing their areas more accurately. The Peters projection map uses a rectangular coordinate system that shows parallel lines of latitude and longitude.

2024年1月23日 · Arno Peters’ comparison of the depiction of Europe and South America on his own (equal-area) world map projection (upper) and on Mercator’s projection (lower), indicating how the latter exaggerated the size of Europe and diminished South America.

2024年5月21日 · The Gall-Peters projection is a type of cylindrical map projection that shows the Earth’s surface. It attempts to depict all areas with the correct sizes compared to each other. This feature is known as equal-area.

ABSTRACT: In 1973, German historian Arno Peters unveiled the “Peters projection,” a map that challenged the Eurocentric Mercator style by redrawing the so-called “Third World” to appear more prominent on the global landscape.

In 1974, a German historian, Arno Peters, introduced what he called The Peters Projection to the cartographic community. It was immediately and roundly condemned as being a copy of one by...

The Peters Projection was created by Arno Peters in 1974 as a response to the distortions found in the Mercator Projection. One of the main advantages of the Peters Projection is that it visually represents developing countries more accurately in terms of size compared to developed nations.

6 天之前 · Based on a mathematical formula that Gall first proposed in the 19th century, Peters projected an image of the world that attempted to capture the size of objects relative to each other. However, this map had its own problems in that it distorts geographical relationships by distorting shapes of countries and continents.