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  2. Unisphere - Wikipedia

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    The Unisphere is a spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States.The globe was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke for the 1964 New York World's Fair.

  3. Ellen Eliza Fitz - Wikipedia

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    Ellen Eliza Fitz was born in 1835 in Kingston, New Hampshire.When she was a child, she moved to Massachusetts and grew up in Lynnfield and Newton.She grew to be scholarly and curious, spending most of her time as a teenager translating classical texts, such as the Eclogues of Virgil and publishing poetry. [1]

  4. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Projects the globe onto eight octants (Reuleaux triangles) with no meridians and no parallels. 1909 Cahill's butterfly map: Polyhedral Compromise Bernard Joseph Stanislaus Cahill: Projects the globe onto an octahedron with symmetrical components and contiguous landmasses that may be displayed in various arrangements. 1975 Cahill–Keyes projection

  5. Mapparium - Wikipedia

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    The Mapparium was designed to allow the countries of the world to be viewed in accurate geographical relationship to each other, hence the design of the Mapparium—a mirror-image, concave reversal of the Earth, viewed from within. This is the only configuration that places the eye at the same distance from every point on the globe.

  6. Even in the age of Google Earth, people still buy globes ...

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    Find a globe in your local library or classroom and try this: Close the eyes, spin it and drop a finger randomly on its curved, glossy surface. In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate ...

  7. Willem Blaeu - Wikipedia

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    Bright sunlight bathes the girl and the large map on the wall. Vermeer's gift for realism is evidenced by the fact that the wall map, mounted on linen and wooden rods, is identifiable as Blaeu's 1621 map of Holland and West Friesland. He captures faithfully its characteristic design, decoration, and geographic content. [2]

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