This document discusses how texts can reveal facts, truth, reality, cultural beliefs, social attitudes, history, time and concepts through close study of individual texts. It also explores relationships between a text's content and structure, voice and perspective, and how the text relates to its context. The document provides two examples of maps - the 1569 Mercator Projection world map and the 1885 Peters Projection world map, noting the latter was not widely used until 1973 when it was promoted by Arno Peters.

1. PERSPECTIVES
How do texts reveal:
• “facts”?
• Truth?
• reality?
• Cultural beliefs?
• Social attitudes
history and time?
• Concepts?
Through the close study of individual texts, you will
explore relationships between:
content and structure,
voice and perspective, and…
the text and its context.

2. Mercator Projection Map of the World – 1569 By Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator

4. Peters Projection of the Map of the World – the first version was published in 1885 (by
a Scottish cartographer named James Gall). It was not “used” until 1973!

5. The Peters Projection was the name given to the map in 1973 – by German Arno
Peters (a historian and film-maker).