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Arno Peters (May 22, 1916 - December 2, 2002) developed the Peters world map, based on the Gall-Peters projection
Gall-Peters projection

The Gall-Peters projection is one specialization of a configurable equal-area map projection known as the equal-area cylindric or cylindric equal-area projection....
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Born in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, Germany
Germany

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, he began his career as a filmmaker who studied American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 techniques of filmmaking during the late 1930s, and helped to revolutionize film production in Germany at the time. In 1942, Arno Peters received his doctorate at the University of Berlin, writing his dissertation on political propaganda.






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Arno Peters (May 22, 1916 - December 2, 2002) developed the Peters world map, based on the Gall-Peters projection
Gall-Peters projection

The Gall-Peters projection is one specialization of a configurable equal-area map projection known as the equal-area cylindric or cylindric equal-area projection....
.

Born in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, he began his career as a filmmaker who studied American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 techniques of filmmaking during the late 1930s, and helped to revolutionize film production in Germany at the time. In 1942, Arno Peters received his doctorate at the University of Berlin, writing his dissertation on political propaganda. This interest pushed Peters into studying Synchronoptic World History, which focuses on giving all people of the world equal voice, by making a timeline with each year getting equal space on a page. This project culminated in Peters' development of the Peters world map in 1974.

Peters worked in Bremen, Germany, until his death.

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