This message is from Peter can der Krogt.--------------------Johnnie ------------------------------------------------------- >Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 09:43:19 +0200 >From: Peter van der Krogt <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Globe Quotes? + largest map For the historical view of the use of globes, see Globi Neerlandici : the production of globes in the Low Countries / Peter van der Krogt. =97 Utrecht : HES Publishers, 1993. (see: <http://www.forum-hes.nl/hes.htm>) mainly: chapter 6: Globe use and globe users in the seventeenth century chapter 10: Globes for the general public Btw, chapter 11 The nineteenth and twentieth centuries: from 'Etablissement G=E9ographique de Bruxelles' to 'Eerste Nederlandsche Globe Industrie' discusses the large world map by Vandermaelen, which could be mounted to a globe of c. 7.75 meters diameter. Peter At 17:13 11-04-97 EDT, you wrote: >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >Hello all. > >I'm searching for some kind of quote and/or statement about the >usefulness >of globes - as opposed to flat maps. Either something about globes >themselves or about the importance of having a globe around, etc. I've >been searching through several cartographic textbooks and have found >some >general statements in there, but I'm also looking for perhaps more >whimsical quotes from famous people/characters/etc. > >I know this is a rather vague request, so my apologies. Anyone who might >have an idea of what I'm talking about, please feel free to mail me >directly. > >Tom Edwards >Geographer >Microsoft Corp. > >[log in to unmask] > > ______________________________________________________ Visit the MapHist WWW page <http://kartoserver.frw.ruu.nl/HTML/STAFF/krogt/maphist.htm> YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Dr Peter van der Krogt Map Historian, Explokart Research Program Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Utrecht P.O. Box 80.115 3508 TC UTRECHT, The Netherlands <http://kartoserver.frw.ruu.nl/HTML/STAFF/krogt/krogt.htm> e-mail: [log in to unmask] YYYYYYYYYYYYYYY PER ANGUSTA AD AUGUSTA YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY