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James Gall (1808–1895) was a Scottish clergyman, cartographer, and astronomer who made significant contributions to map projections. In 1855, he developed the Gall stereographic cylindrical projection, which aimed to reduce the distortion of landmasses near the poles. Although largely overshadowed d...
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Arno Peters was a German historian and filmmaker who lived from 1916 to 2002. He promoted the equal-area Peters world map, presented in 1973, which preserves relative area while altering the shapes of landmasses; the design closely resembles the earlier Gall projection and became the subject of sust...
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