{"id":2608,"date":"2016-08-11T09:28:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2016-08-11T09:28:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:28:41","slug":"a-globe-of-percival-lowells-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/a-globe-of-percival-lowells-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"A Globe of Percival Lowell&#8217;s Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marsglobes.de\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2609\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/a-globe-of-percival-lowells-mars\/pkm-mars-globe\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pkm-mars-globe.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1066\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pkm-mars-globe\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pkm-mars-globe-300x267.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pkm-mars-globe-1024x910.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2609\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pkm-mars-globe-1024x910.jpg\" alt=\"pkm-mars-globe\" width=\"840\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pkm-mars-globe-1024x910.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pkm-mars-globe-150x133.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pkm-mars-globe-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/pkm-mars-globe.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hand-made globes are increasingly a thing, apparently. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/a-traditional-globe-maker-is-making-3d-versions-of-historic-martian-maps\">As\u00a0<em>Atlas Obscura<\/em> reports this week<\/a>, Michael Plichta&#8217;s company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marsglobes.de\">Planetenkugel-Manufaktur<\/a>, is producing a hand-crafted globe of Mars with a twist: it&#8217;s based on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Percival_Lowell\">Percival Lowell<\/a>\u2019s maps, which (erroneously) showed the Martian surface covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martian_canal\">canals<\/a>. It&#8217;s delightfully retro and I love it.\u00a0Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/138799685\">a video<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mars globe crafted by PKM\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/138799685?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Nowhere on the website\u00a0is a price mentioned, which tells me that I won&#8217;t be able to afford one, damn it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hand-made globes are increasingly a thing, apparently. As\u00a0Atlas Obscura reports this week, Michael Plichta&#8217;s company, Planetenkugel-Manufaktur, is producing a hand-crafted globe of Mars with a twist: it&#8217;s based on Percival Lowell\u2019s maps, which (erroneously) showed&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/08\/a-globe-of-percival-lowells-mars\/\">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":[3],"tags":[26,295],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-astronomy","tag-globes","tag-mars","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786039,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/07\/an-amazing-relief-globe-of-the-moon\/","url_meta":{"origin":2608,"position":0},"title":"An Amazing Relief Globe of the Moon","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 July 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"In 2016 I told you about Michael Plichta's first globe, a delightfully retro hand-crafted globe of Mars based on Percival Lowell's maps that showed the world covered in canals. 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