99-year-old Bea McPherson opened doors for other women in careers that rely on maps, including weather forecasting.
London globemaker Peter Bellerby says plenty of people are shelling out big money for orbs as large as 50 inches across.LONDON, UK — Find a globe in your local library or classroom and try this: Close the eyes, spin it and drop a finger randomly on its curved, glossy surface.
Or, as Scottish-born American explorer John Muir wrote in 1915: “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”Beyond the existential and historical appeal, earthly matters such as cost and geopolitics hover over globemaking.
“Sadly, I think globe usage probably is declining, perhaps particularly in the school setting, where digital technologies are taking over,” Nall says. “I think now they’re perhaps more becoming items of overt prestige. They’re being bought as display pieces to look beautiful, which of course they always have been.”Bellerby's globes aren't cheap. They run from about 1,290 British pounds for the smallest to six figures for the 50-inch Churchill model.
And yes, some of the planet's wealthiest people buy them. The family of German tool and hardware company chairman Reinhold Wurth gave him a Churchill, the largest model, for his 83rd birthday. It is now on display at the Museum Wurth 2 in Berlin.There is no international standard for a correctly drawn earth. Countries, like people, view the world differently, and some are highly sensitive about how their territory is depicted.
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