People my age grew up with a map of the world that had been created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. But in ...

Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan.

These came from all across the world – for example a Spanish map from 1548 depicts the state as a peninsula, while it’s shown as an island in a Dutch map from 1622. It was only after Father ...