Unlearning the Mercator Map on the Classroom Wall
From Lucas Pierre · 20:09
Show by Lucas Pierre
On the standard classroom wall map, Greenland looks the same size as Africa—yet in reality, Africa is fourteen times larger. In this fifth lecture, Lucas Pierre unpacks the history of the 1569 Mercator navigation chart, explaining how it was used during the age of empire to inflate northern powers while visually shrinking the Global South, and how looking at equal-area maps and globes restores our true sense of the planet. #LucasPierre #Cartography #MercatorMap #GeographyMatters #WorldView #HistoryPodcast
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