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Globes are both artistically interesting and scientifically useful. Their principal value is in stimulating sound concepts of worldwide patterns and in rectifying errors induced by the limitations of flat maps. All flat maps distort the Earth's surface patterns, but carefully made globes constitute truer scale models of the Earth, with correct areas, shapes, and distances as well as continuity of surface. Globes have long been used as aids in navigation, in the teaching of earth sciences, and as room ornaments.
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For the past three years, "Globes" has identified the top Israeli organizations to honor as part of its annual conference, co-hosted by Ernst & Young. This year's ten finalists span industries from high tech to drug development to medical IT and several others. OpTier was honored as the preeminent of the group for its seasoned management team, corporate success and the value its products bring to market.
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Globes were widely used as educational tools in nineteenth-century America and were more popular than their current representation in American museums and libraries would suggest. During the past decade, the Geography and Map Division has made a concerted effort to assemble a strong collection of globes produced by American manufacturers. Through a combination of gifts and purchases, twenty-five globes from the estate of Howard E. Welsh, the preeminent collector of American globes, was acquired in 1991. With these additions, the division now holds the major study collection for globes produced in the United States.
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Today's globes would not be the same without the Flemish geographer Gerhard Kremer who is better known by the Latin form of his name, Gerardus Mercator. Mercator lived from 1512-1594 and was ... a cartographer, mathematician, astronomer, and engraver. He is best known for having developed the type of map, now called a Mercator projection, in which all the meridians and longitudinal lines are parallel and the lines of latitude intersect these at right angles and are also parallel to each other. The Mercator projection simplified map reading; for instance, a navigator can plot a ship's course between any two points in a straight line and follow that course without changing compass direction. Mercator also widely influenced all other aspects of mapmaking; the world atlas is also his invention. He made Louvain, Belgium, the center of the world of cartography and scientific instruments; and, there, he and Myrica Frisius constructed terrestrial and celestial globes in 1535-1537.
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GLOBES typically meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Tate Center or the Student Learning Center. Meetings and events are advertised via postings to the GLOBES listserv and on the GLOBES news page.
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Globes are made in two standard sizes. The 12in (30.5 cm) diameter globe (roughly the size of a basketball) is the most popular globe sold to schools and retailers, and the second most popular size is 16 in (40.6 cm) in diameter. Of all the globes sold, 80% of them are 12 in (30.5 cm) globes. Apart from distinctions like terrestrial, political, relief, celestial, etc., globes are made in a variety of color schemes because they are made as ornamental as well as informative objects to decorate homes and offices. Interestingly, children prefer globes with blue oceans, while adults like non-blue globes, of which the antique or off-white color is favored.
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