The
Globes
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The
globe is the only correct way of reproducing the Earth’s surface, so
globes have been made ever since the realisation that the Earth is
round.The oldest known globe to date is the Behaim Globe from 1492
before America was added to the world map. Globe
production had its golden age at the beginning of the 1600s particularly
due to the globe production of the Dutch cartographer Blaeu.A globe can
only be produced in a limited size, thus limiting the amount of
information.This, in conjunction with the cost of globe production, made
globes valuable objects. Another factor is that they were often produced
in delicate materials such as plaster. This
is a display of a small selection of the library’s globes spanning a
period of 500 years, including hand-drawn and printed globes and Earth
and celestial globes, which were often produced in pairs.
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