Globe map , Importance of globe , uses of globe map, types of globe.

Globe

A globe can be terrestrial a spherical representation of the earth or celestial a spherical representation of the heavens .

Both types were constructed in ancient Greece and China . The earliest globe's were small and made of marble , metal or wood , with etched or painte surfaces.  The earliest known celestial globe form's part of the "Farnes Atlas ," a Roman copy of a Greek statue . Atlas holds a sphere some 26 inches across showing the constellations.

   

   

     In 1492 The Nurnberg Mapmaker Martin Behaim made a globe from a mold using wood strips , plaster , and fiber . Soon other mapmakers were covering balls with map segments called globe gore's , printed map segments with tapered points . Dutch artist Albrecht Durer published rules for preparing globe gores in 1525 . A more formal illustrated guide appeared in 1527 , published in Basel by Henricus Glareanus.

He proposed using 12 globe segments, each representation 30 degrees of longitude and extending from Pole to Pole .

 

           Antonio Florian's 1555 world map portrays the Northern and Southern Hemisphere  , both subdivided into 36 gore's of ten degrees . It may have been intended as a flat map or as the surface cover for a globe , each segment to be cut , moistened , stretched and pasted over a ten - Inch sphere . Today terrestrial globe's depict Earth' physical features and may include features on the ocean floor as well . Most globe's commonly show political features such as countries and cities.

Globes typically are Mounted with the axis tilted at 23½° , to simulate EARTH'S inclination as it orbits the sun   Globe's also depict other spheres, such as the moon.

Glossary--

Geomagnetic : From Greek ge, earth + kentron , centre . Any theory of structure of the solar system or the uni in which Earth assumed to be at the centre of all . /Heliocentric : From Greeks Helios , sun + kentron , centre . A cosmological model in which the sun is assumed to lie at or near centeral point while Earth and bodies rotate around it .

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