The story behind the ANTIQUE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE

A BRIEF HISTORY OF GLOBES Globes generally fall into two broad categories: terrestrial and celestial. A terrestrial globe depicts a spherical map of the earth, and celestial globes map the stars spherically using the earth as an imaginary center of the universe. During the European Renaissance, technological developments, such as printing, led to the rapid development of globe making. The German geographer, Martin Behaim, made the oldest surviving globe, in around 1492. Behaim’s globe, known as the Erdapfel, German for earth apple, is a terrestrial globe that does not include the Americas. The globe also shows an enlarged Eurasian continent with an...