New Internationalist The Upside Down Jigsaw

Its a topsy turvy world! This great jigsaw is based on the Hobo Dyer Equal Area Projection, but flip

New Internationalist The Upside Down Jigsaw

Its a topsy turvy world! This great jigsaw is based on the Hobo Dyer Equal Area Projection, but flipped - so not only does it have countries represented in the correct size in relation to one another (which most maps dont), its turned our normal perception of up and down on its head! So why turn it upside down? Well, why not? It is completely artificial to have North at the top of a map. The convention only began a few centuries ago when European navigators started using the North star and t

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