Enter any classroom and you're likely to spot a large, rectangular poster displaying a map of
. The reason is obvious-our planet
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不過這種地圖一直是有瑕疵的:地球是平的)
For comparison's sake, imagine taking a ball, slicing through one side of it, laying it totally
flat on the table, and trying to squeeze it into a rectangular shape. Of course any image on it would
终形的
become distorted, and that is precisely the case with the typical flat world map. This distortion
the world. But such maps are and always have been
isn't flat!
are.
17 land masses appear larger than they really
on a typical world map, Africa looks smaller than Greenland, when in reality the
becomes more pronounced nearer to the poles,
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former is 14.5 times larger than the latter!
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