"In a famous rude remark, Andre Siegfried, wanting to raise awareness of the actual geographical structure of our planet, launched this advice:" Dis-mercator us ! ". Our image of the Earth has indeed been forged facing these maps where the Mercator projection gives the Northern Canada or Siberia an importance strangely abusive and reduced surface of Africa ; we must therefore forget Mercator"
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by Albert Jacquard