Globes

Blaeu Globes Fetch €800,000
Remember those two Blaeu globes I was telling you about — the ones that belonged to the royal family of Liechtenstein and were being auctioned by Christie’s? They were bought, by a private collection, for €800,000. Via Map the Universe…. »
Posted on Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 10:02 AM
Categories: Collecting, Globes
Blaeu Notes
A digitized version of Willem and Joan Blaeu’s six-volume Toonneel des Aerdrycks, ofte Nieuwe Atlas (1659), produced for the city of Leiden, is available online from the Leiden Regional Archives; click here for the map viewer. Christie’s is auctioning two… »
Posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 6:48 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Collecting, Globes
Boston-Area Map Exhibitions
At the Boston Public Library’s Copley Square through June, Boston and Beyond, a collection of bird’s-eye-view maps of Boston and New England from the second half of the 19th century. At Harvard University’s Pusey Library until April 1, Henry F…. »
Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Boston, Earth Sciences, Exhibitions, Globes, Surveying
Custom Globes and Contested Geographies
You’re no doubt familiar with the controversies about what gets depicted on a map: disputed territories, disputed names (e.g. Persian Gulf vs. Arabian Gulf, Sea of Japan vs. East Sea). Here’s an interesting article from the International Herald Tribune that… »
Posted on Thursday, August 2, 2007 at 9:21 PM
Categories: Globes, Toponyms
More About Waldseemüller
More on Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map, the 500th anniversary of which is being celebrated this year. The Library of Congress reports that construction of the hermetically sealed encasement for their copy of the map — the last surviving… »
Posted on Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 9:16 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Globes
Pocket Globes
I was not previously aware of the existence of pocket globes: made of wood, paper or papier-mâché, from the late 18th and early 19th century, and frequently three inches or less in diameter. More about them at Dream Tree… »
Posted on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 1:36 PM
Categories: Globes
DIY Globes, Paper and Metal
Via Make: Blog, DIY map fold-outs that you print, cut, and fold into a polyhedron. Mark Wilson used one to make a unique, rhombicuboctahedral gift wrapper (shown here). Or, if your tastes run to metal rather than paper, and… »
Posted on Sunday, November 5, 2006 at 7:34 PM
Categories: Globes
The Blue Planet Globe
The Blue Planet Globe, encased in a smoked acrylic box, simulates the earth’s rotation and seasonal changes in sunlight — for a mere $850. But on the Science Source catalogue page, there is a less-glamourous manual version for only… »
Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 7:57 AM
Categories: Globes
Globe of Sawyer’s Quintaglio
Science fiction writers frequently create maps of the worlds they create for their stories; one of Robert J. Sawyer’s fans turned around and made him a globe from those maps. From his blog: “A fellow named Patrick J. O’Connor,… »
Posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 6:37 AM
Categories: Globes, Imaginary Places
Globe Museum in Vienna
Opening today in Vienna, the Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library at its new digs in the refurbished Palais Mollard. The collection of more than 400 globes, 240 of which are on display, includes early modern globes by Mercator,… »
Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2005 at 3:36 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Exhibitions, Globes
Coronelli’s Globes on Display
Géo212 reports that Coronelli’s globes are on display in Paris for the first time in 25 years, as part of the reopening of the Grand Palais. See coverage from the Nouvel Observateur and Radio France Internationale; if you don’t read… »
Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 9:16 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Globes
Big Eartha
With a diameter of 12.5 metres, the 1:1,000,000 scale, three-ton Eartha, built in the lobby of map publisher DeLorme, is the world’s largest rotating globe. Housed in a three-story glass atrium at the company’s headquarters in Yarmouth, Maine, Eartha… »
Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2005 at 10:41 AM
Categories: Globes
Ingo Günther’s Globes
World Processor showcases the globes of Ingo Günther, which depict social, environmental and political data: everything from life expectancy to pollution to wealth distribution. Via WorldChanging…. »
Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 at 9:17 PM
Categories: Environment, Globes
Relief Globes
This has to be seen to be believed. James Lin writes to tell us about the Relief Globe Company: “Alan Folmsbee, a former Sun Microsystems engineer, has set up his own globe company with massive vertical exaggeration: 250× for the… »
Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at 11:37 AM
Categories: Globes

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