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  2. 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.

  3. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Equal Earth: Pseudocylindrical Equal-area Bojan Šavrič, Tom Patterson, Bernhard Jenny Inspired by the Robinson projection, but retains the relative size of areas. 2011 Natural Earth: Pseudocylindrical Compromise Tom Patterson: Originally by interpolation of tabulated values. Now has a polynomial. 1973 Tobler hyperelliptical: Pseudocylindrical ...

  4. Globe - Wikipedia

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    Usually a globe is mounted so that its rotation axis is 23.5° (0.41 rad) from vertical, which is the angle the Earth's rotation axis deviates from perpendicular to the plane of its orbit. This mounting makes it easy to visualize how seasons change.

  5. Eartha - Wikipedia

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    The globe was built with a scale of 1:1,000,000, on which one inch represents sixteen miles (1mm = 1km). [3] [4] As with most globes, it is mounted at a 23.5 degree angle, the same axial tilt as the Earth itself; thus the equator is diagonal to the floor.

  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. World map - Wikipedia

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    A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

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