But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569 to help maritime travel in the ...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction (1): Rival Interpretations of Continent Personifications -- ...

If you were to arrive in our solar system never having seen it before, you’d be impressed with variety. Giant gas planets with rings, moons spanning from minuscule to enormous, icy comets that hurtle ...

Across the planet, water makes up 71% of Earth’s surface. The remaining space is covered by land — continents and islands. Before Earth’s land formed the seven continents in the present day, all the ...

Most people know that the land masses on which we all live represent just 30% of Earth’s surface, and the rest is covered by oceans. The emergence of the continents was a pivotal moment in the history ...

English poet John Donne once said, "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent." We all belong to a zip code, a country, and a continent, but more than that, we are ...