{"id":1833599,"date":"2024-08-16T11:20:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T15:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1833599"},"modified":"2024-08-16T11:20:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T15:20:58","slug":"an-impossibly-heavy-large-silver-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/08\/an-impossibly-heavy-large-silver-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"‘An Impossibly Heavy, Large Silver Globe’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cOf all the globes in the Geography & Map Division\u2019s collections, there is one that has always caught my eye: an impossibly heavy, large silver globe tucked away in our stacks, that stands without any depiction of the earth\u2019s physical features at all. The large silver orb instead displays only a coordinate system grid composed of unlabeled latitude and longitude lines.\u201d Meagan Snow writes about the unlikeliest of globes in the Library of Congress\u2019s collection<\/a>: a precisely machined 34-inch blank metal globe. What on earth it was it used for? Answer unclear: \u201cThe intended use of the globe is described as \u2018for earth study.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOf all the globes in the Geography & Map Division\u2019s collections, there is one that has always caught my eye: an impossibly heavy, large silver globe tucked away in our stacks, that stands without any… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1833599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-unusual-maps","tag-globes","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789347,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/09\/these-globes-are-uncanny\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833599,"position":0},"title":"These Globes Are Uncanny","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 September 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Twice now I\u2019ve encountered globes that I find more than a bit unsettling, in that they wrap a map of a portion of the Earth around an entire globe. 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Creative Commons BY-ND licence. 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