{"id":1826549,"date":"2024-02-02T08:49:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1826549"},"modified":"2024-02-02T08:49:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:49:47","slug":"edney-on-arno-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/02\/edney-on-arno-peters\/","title":{"rendered":"Edney on Arno Peters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Edney has written a long blog post on Arno Peters and his map<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been struggling for months now on how to deal with Arno Peters and his world map. Every time I turn to the subject, I just get bogged down by the complexity of the scattered and multifaceted literature, by the insanity of much of Peters\u2019 map work, and by the different responses to his work. […] After at least three tries to say something new, and floundering each time, I am presenting this blog entry simply as an attempt to organize the information about Peters in a way that makes sense to me, which is to say historically. Think of it as a long bibliographical essay based on what I have to hand (so not comprehensive, especially in the German-language literature). I\u2019m not sure that it says anything necessarily new or significant. So please join me as I go through a series of cuts at Peters and his map work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew Edney has written a long blog post on Arno Peters and his map. I\u2019ve been struggling for months now on how to deal with Arno Peters and his world map. 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Ouch.) [Caitlin Dempsey] Previously: More on Boston Schools and the Peters Map;\u00a0The Peters Map\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cartography"","block_context":{"text":"Cartography","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/cartography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4102,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/03\/more-on-boston-schools-and-the-peters-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1826549,"position":1},"title":"More on Boston Schools and the Peters Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 March 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Atlas Obscura\u2019s Cara Giaimo has an in-depth look at the reaction to the decision by Boston public schools to adopt the Peters projection in teaching materials. 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