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2. Bellerby & Co, Globemakers - Wikipedia

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   The book covers not only Bellerby's own journey to becoming a globemaker, but the roots of the craft itself, from the ancients Greeks and their predecessors who first discovered the Earth was a sphere, all the way through to Martin Behaim's Erdapfel, the world's oldest surviving terrestrial globe created in Nuremberg between 1492 and 1494 and ...

3. Eartha - Wikipedia

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   Eartha is the world's largest rotating and revolving globe, located within the former headquarters of the DeLorme mapping corporation in Yarmouth, Maine. [1] Garmin purchased the company and the building in 2016. [2] The globe weighs approximately 5,600 pounds (2,500 kg), and has a diameter of over 41 feet (12.5 m).

4. Replogle - Wikipedia

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   Replogle Globes was started by Luther Replogle (1902-1981) when, in 1930, he began selling globes which he crafted by hand in his apartment in Chicago, using maps from England. [2] His vision was to make globes a common feature in people's households, rather than something found only in academic settings. Luther Replogle co-founded Scanglobe in ...

5. 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 ...

6. YoVille's free Old World Globes are still missing...

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7. Willem Blaeu - Wikipedia

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   Between 1594 and 1596, as a student of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, he qualified as an instrument and globe maker. [1] During this time in 1596, his son Joan Blaeu was born and he would also become a well established cartographer. Later in 1600 Willem discovered the second ever variable star, now known as P Cygni.