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Topic: Arno Peters

	Peters Photo Album - ODT
		Arno Peters' father, Bruno (missing from this picture), was imprisoned by the Nazi regime near the end of the W.W.II.
		Arno Peters was born in Berlin in 1916 and educated there at the University of Berlin, where he studied history, the history of art and journalism.
		Arno Peters died in Bremen on December 2, 2002, at the age of 86.
	www.odt.org /album.htm (2118 words)

	PEASANTS' REVOLT: The politics of food and farming - NI 353 - Obituary: Professor Arno Peters
		In fact, Gall's projection was slightly different to Peters', and it was not until late in life that Peters became aware of it.
		Peters did not engage with his more vitriolic critics, pleased that the map was provoking thought and debate about the way maps shape our view of the world.
		Arno Peters, historian, was born in Berlin on May 22, 1916, and died in Bremen on December 2, 2002, at the age of 86.
	www.newint.org /issue353/arno.htm (757 words)

	Gall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A student of political propaganda, Peters continued to claim his "invention" was distinctly different from the Gall projection even after it was conclusively demonstrated by professional cartographers that the so-called "Peters" projection was indeed the Gall.
		Perhaps most telling of the political objectives of Arno Peters and his followers, the main claim for the projection is that it is more even-handed in presenting the true, relative size of Third World nations than are other projections, in particular the Mercator.
		In fact, the Gall projection was apparently adopted by Arno Peters precisely because it distorts the apparent size of nations to overemphasize those nations favored by Arno Peters and his followers.
	www.manifold.net /doc/700/gall.htm (1208 words)

	Peters Map
		World mission and aid-giving agencies use the Peters map because it serves to represent the developing countries at their true proportion.
		The Peters map has been widely adopted elsewhere, but remains a curiosity in the United States.
		Arno Peters was one of the first to assert that maps are unavoidably political.
	www.petersmap.com /page9.html (94 words)

	Social Consciousness and World Maps
		From its initial announcement, the Peters Projection has been surrounded by controversy: in over 40 articles on the subject, cartographers have vigorously denounced a number of Peters’s claims for the map, while he and his supporters have argued that his is the only world map that meets the concerns of people interested in social issues.
		Peters concluded that the Mercator Projection draws its popularity in large part from exaggerating the sizes of white-dominated regions and thus reflects a racist attitude -- a serious charge, if actually true.
		Their objections fall into two general categories: first, the simplistic proposal that the Peters Projection should be used exclusively (except possibly for navigation), and second, the number of incorrect statements made about the projection, and therefore (by implication) about other projections.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=976 (1107 words)

	The earth in true proportion for the first time?
		Arno Peters thinks this is too much, and divides each page of the atlas into macaroni strips, extending vertically from the middle of the page to the top and bottom edges, identified by single letters along the top and bottom.
		The Peters projection is a particular case of a cylindrical projection: one way or another, we wrap a piece of paper in a cylinder around the earth, and unpeel the meridians onto the cylinder.
		Peters, and Gall before him, chose to squash the map so that the shape is right at 45° N and S. Why, is a mystery.
	imaginatorium.org /books/maps.htm (3081 words)

	Obituary - Arno Peters - Brief Article - Obituary New Internationalist - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Arno Peters, best known for the Peters Map, died in Bremen, Germany, on 2 December 2002 at the age of 86.
		His passionate belief in giving all an equal chance would seem innocent enough, but it was Peters' insistence on applying it in the face of well-established bigotry in a number of different disciplines which brought him enemies and not a little misunderstanding.
		Peters considered that most world maps in common use -- especially the Mercator Projection, beloved of school atlases -- seriously misled the reader through their gross exaggeration of scale towards the poles.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JQP/is_2003_Jan-Feb/ai_97872825 (316 words)

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