Explore: Terrestrial Globe

down. A model globe of Earth is called a terrestrial globe. A model globe of the celestial sphere is called a celestial globe. A globe shows details of

a terrestrial globe 51 cm (20 in) in diameter, produced by Martin Behaim from 1490 to 1492. The Erdapfel is the oldest surviving terrestrial globe. It

an English Elizabethan maker of globes, mathematical instruments and ordnance. His terrestrial and celestial globes, first published in 1592, were the

The Hunt–Lenox Globe or Lenox Globe, dating from about 1508, is the second- or third-oldest known terrestrial globe, after the Erdapfel of Martin Behaim

commissioned to make a set of terrestrial and celestial globes for Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma. Each finely crafted globe was five feet in diameter

(Grace) may suggest their being in "harmony" with each other. The terrestrial globe on the lower shelf repeats a portion of a cartographically imaginative

circular rings is a small terrestrial globe I, fixed on an axis K, which extends from the north and south poles of the globe at n and s, to those of the

geographer. A large part of Mercator's income came from sales of terrestrial and celestial globes. For sixty years they were considered the finest in the world

a youthful Christ who is less frontal in his pose and who holds a terrestrial globe. These are largely from Leonardo's Milanese following rather than

shows Atlas holding the celestial spheres, not the terrestrial globe; the solidity of the marble globe borne by the Farnese Atlas may have aided the conflation