An accurate world map is something that has evaded cartographers for centuries. But this new design just might ... but distorts the shapes of the continents. It seemed like we were doomed to ...

If you've seen a world map or travelled to Australia then ... Elsewhere, Earth has six continents, not seven, radical new ...

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself ...

In 1502, as Europeans hungrily looked to the vast new continent across the ... acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue ...