{"id":1786097,"date":"2018-08-09T09:02:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786097"},"modified":"2018-08-09T09:02:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:02:42","slug":"a-13th-century-celestial-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/a-13th-century-celestial-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"A 13th-Century Celestial Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"13th century celestial globe I Curator&#039;s Corner + #CuratorsCorner\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gYa1Jg-7Elc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gYa1Jg-7Elc\">Here&#8217;s a short video<\/a> from the British Museum about a 13th-century celestial globe; it goes into the history of the globe, who made it, and how the stars appear on it (i.e. if the sky is represented as a globe, we&#8217;re on the inside: how do the stars appear on that globe?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a short video from the British Museum about a 13th-century celestial globe; it goes into the history of the globe, who made it, and how the stars appear on it (i.e. if the sky&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/a-13th-century-celestial-globe\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[1250,426,26,150],"class_list":["post-1786097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-astronomy","tag-british-museum","tag-celestial-maps","tag-globes","tag-museums","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785383,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/04\/the-rumsey-collections-augmented-reality-globe-app\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786097,"position":0},"title":"The Rumsey Collection&#8217;s Augmented Reality Globe App","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 April 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"The David Rumsey Map Collection has a number of virtual globes, but its AR Globe app may be the most unusual way to view them. 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The digital globes will be available to view on the British Library website\u2014www.bl.uk\/collection-items\u2014from 26 March, via a viewing platform which includes an augmented reality function (available on phone\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"British Library digital globes","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bl-digital-globes-1024x683.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bl-digital-globes-1024x683.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bl-digital-globes-1024x683.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/bl-digital-globes-1024x683.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3603,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/12\/miscellaneous-globes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786097,"position":4},"title":"Miscellaneous Globes","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 December 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Random and miscellaneous globe items: James Wilson was America's first globe maker; his Bradford, Vermont-based globe factory opened in 1813. 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