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Author: HAMMOND Publisher: ISBN: 9780843718256 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
Including everything needed to create your own unique models of our world, this kit features a globe stand and a CD with a variety of map projections that can be printed out on adhesive inkjet paper (included). The projections can be cut and placed on the globe. A 64-page, full-color project book offers comprehensive instructions and information about how maps are made and additional globe-related projects, including how to make origami globes. The book also tells the story of how our world was made and takes you on an entertainig voyage around the planet.
Author: HAMMOND Publisher: ISBN: 9780843718256 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
Including everything needed to create your own unique models of our world, this kit features a globe stand and a CD with a variety of map projections that can be printed out on adhesive inkjet paper (included). The projections can be cut and placed on the globe. A 64-page, full-color project book offers comprehensive instructions and information about how maps are made and additional globe-related projects, including how to make origami globes. The book also tells the story of how our world was made and takes you on an entertainig voyage around the planet.
Author: Tom Mugridge Publisher: Ilex Press ISBN: 9781905814367 Category : Languages : en Pages : 64
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This kit is an exciting resource that combines learning about the world, maps and mapping with paper craft fun. The box contains a CD-ROM, book and globe that together let you create your own world views to print out and wrap around the globe. You can also fold them - origami-style - to create your own 3D models of our planet. The book features a detailed look at how the earth has developed into todays globe and an overview of different mapping and globe-making techniques. It also gives clear instructions for using the enclosed CD-ROM. The high-quality digital maps (compatible with all popular image-editing programmes) may be customised to show different features - terrain, political boundaries, relief, and so on. Globes have always fascinated us - now they are fun, too!
Author: Sylvia Sumira Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022613914X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 231
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The concept of the earth as a sphere has been around for centuries, emerging around the time of Pythagoras in the sixth century BC, and eventually becoming dominant as other thinkers of the ancient world, including Plato and Aristotle, accepted the idea. The first record of an actual globe being made is found in verse, written by the poet Aratus of Soli, who describes a celestial sphere of the stars by Greek astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus (ca. 408–355 BC). The oldest surviving globe—a celestial globe held up by Atlas’s shoulders—dates back to 150 AD, but in the West, globes were not made again for about a thousand years. It was not until the fifteenth century that terrestrial globes gained importance, culminating when German geographer Martin Behaim created what is thought to be the oldest surviving terrestrial globe. In Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power, Sylvia Sumira, beginning with Behaim’s globe, offers a authoritative and striking illustrated history of the subsequent four hundred years of globe making. Showcasing the impressive collection of globes held by the British Library, Sumira traces the inception and progression of globes during the period in which they were most widely used—from the late fifteenth century to the late nineteenth century—shedding light on their purpose, function, influence, and manufacture, as well as the cartographers, printers, and instrument makers who created them. She takes readers on a chronological journey around the world to examine a wide variety of globes, from those of the Renaissance that demonstrated a renewed interest in classical thinkers; to those of James Wilson, the first successful commercial globe maker in America; to those mass-produced in Boston and New York beginning in the 1800s. Along the way, Sumira not only details the historical significance of each globe, but also pays special attention to their materials and methods of manufacture and how these evolved over the centuries. A stunning and accessible guide to one of the great tools of human exploration, Globes will appeal to historians, collectors, and anyone who has ever examined this classroom accessory and wondered when, why, and how they came to be made.
Author: Edward Dahl Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773569073 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 210
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Advances in modern science and technology have made present-day terrestrial and celestial globes scientifically obsolete and aesthetically banal. From the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century, however, they were indispensable tools for the study of geography and astronomy. Beginning with an overview of early globes, the authors examine how the modern era in globe making, which began in Flemish and Dutch shops in the early seventeenth century, show how globe making spread throughout Europe, and explain how what were both decorative and scientific objects became symbols of power, universal knowledge, intellectual status, and personal vanity. Beginning with the collection's earliest globe, dated 1533, the authors introduce us to the life and works of some of the greatest Dutch, French, English, German, Italian, and Swedish globe makers. The 120 colour illustrations allow the reader to savour these rare and unusual works and include numerous detailed reproductions of both terrestrial and celestial map images. Sphæræ Mundi charts developments and changes over three centuries of globe making, considering the globes as indicators of scientific advance and geographical exploration as well as artifacts and providing a unique opportunity to become familiar with these complex and beautiful objects.
Author: Edward Luther Stevenson Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 486
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This book represents one of the very first detailed and comprehensive historical treatises on globes terrestrial and celestial in English language since the numerous works published before its appearance tended to give only a very general consideration to the uses of globes, including a reference to their important structural features, and to the problems geographical and astronomical in the solution of which they may be counted of service. The aim of this study was to treat the subject historically, beginning with the earliest references to the belief in a spherical earth and a spherical firmament encircling it, and it was inspired by the author's hope that the preliminary study may lead to a number of independent and thorough investigations of important individual examples, to the end of clearly setting forth their great documentary value. Volume 1: Terrestrial Globes in Antiquity Celestial Globes in Antiquity Globes Constructed by the Arabs Terrestrial and Celestial Globes in the Christian Middle Ages Globes Constructed in the Early Years of the Great Geographical Discoveries Globes of the Early Sixteenth Century Globes of the Second Quarter of the Sixteenth Century Globes and Globe Makers of the Third Quarter of the Sixteenth Century Globes and Globe Makers of the Last Quarter of the Sixteenth Century Volume 2: Globes and Globe Makers of the Early Seventeenth Century. The Dutch Scientific Masters and Their Preeminent Leadership Globes of the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century Globes and Globe Makers of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century – from Delisle to Ferguson Globes and Globe Makers of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century The Technic of Globe Construction – Materials and Methods
Author: Bruce Frazee Publisher: Good Year Books ISBN: 1596472340 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
Children get involved in fun-to-do activities while learning the important map-reading skills they need to succeed in a global society. Many activities combine music, art, drama, and poetry with important geography skills.
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