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Globes and Other Special Formats
- Globe Images
- Globe Manufacturers and Retailers
- History of Globes
- Make A Globe
- Non-Earth Globes
- Some Interesting Globe Sites
- Other Cartographic Forms
Globe Images
Globes and Global Relief - Surface of the Earth. This NOAA National Geophysical Data Center site has spinning relief globes.
The Great Globe Gallery. Lots of images of globes and links to globe sites.
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Globe Manufacturers and Retailers
The list below gives some of the major American publishers of educational and geographical globes. Some globe makers produce globes for several publishers. Placement of a site on this list does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the University of Georgia Libraries or the author of this page.
1-World Globes. A wide range of globes from several producers is available at the site.
A. J. Nystrom. The company produces educational globes.
Antique Globe Dealers. There are several antique globe dealers. This is a list of antique globes produced by a major collector of globes.
Eureka. The company produces custom globes and a series of general globes.
George F. Cram Company. The company produces a wide range of educational, home, and general globes.
The Globe Corner Bookstore. This Boston bookstore's online catalog has a very large selection of globes.
Globes From Omni Resources. The site also has inflatable and raised relief globes.
Greaves and Thomas. This company produces "terrestrial, celestial, planetary and lunar globes, antique facsimiles and modern day." They are known for their major facsimiles of early globes. They produce a nice line of paper globes. The site includes imaginative commentaries on the globes they reproduce. The company sells an 'Elvis Mars Globe.'
Inflatable Globes. The site has a range of inflatable globes.
Inflatable Globes. The store has a nice range of inflatable globes and several pages devoted to different globe producers.
National Geographic Society. The Society publishes a series of illuminated and non-illuminated globes.
Nova Rico Globes. This is the site of the US distributor of Nova Rico Globes from Italy.
Rand McNally. The company publishes educational globes and sells a wide range of globes through the Rand McNally Travel Store.
Replogle Globes. The world's largest globe maker is probably Repogle / Scanglobe.
Spherical Concepts. The company produces a range of globes including a series of clear globes.
World Globe Guide. Globes from several producers are available at this site.
A World of Maps. The map store has a good selection of globes.
WorldGlobes.com. A retailer of floor, table top, desk, educational, and gemstone world globes and maps.
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History of Globes
George F. Cram's Oldest Map & Globe Contest. This site has a listing of global changes that can be used to date globes and maps.
Globe Museum. The Globe Museum at the Austrian National Library has some history and links.
Globes - History. The site gives some good links and has a reading list.
Globes of the 20th Century. Considerable information on collectable (not quite antique) terrestrial (world) globes made from 1900 to 1960. This site focuses on American globes and their makers. Has information on dating globes.
Globi Neerlandici: The Productions of Globes in the Low Countries. This is the summary of P.C.J. van der Krogt's 1989 dissertation at the University of Utrecht. It gives a nice history of globes.
Guide to Globe Makers. The George Glazer Gallery, a dealer in antique globes, maintains a nice site that contains a guide to globe makers as well as other information.
International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes. The society studies historical globes, holds meetings, and publishes Globe Studies: the Journal of the International Coronelli Society. (Der Globusfreund - English Edition) .
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Make a Globe
Make your own globe. A short description on how to make a globe at home or in the classroom.
Paper Mache Globe. Directions for a elementary class project to make a globe.
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Non-Earth Globes
Maps and Globe Gallery. This USGS Astrogeology Research Program page has globes of non-earth bodies such as the Moon, Venus, Mars, and the Jovian Satellites.
Globes. This page from the NASA Toys Company has globes, including some non-earth globes.
Planetary Globes. This page from the Science Museum in London, England, gives a nice history of planetary globes.
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Some Interesting Globe Sites
Globes and Terrain Models. This is a Map and Geography Division, Library of Congress site that describes their globes and terrain models.
Maps and Globes Games, Puzzles, Quizzes, Trivia. Have some fun.
Odden's Bookmarks. The listing has around 20,000 links to maps and mapping sites.
Orbis. This company makes very large globes, or 'earthballs,' using satellite imagery.
Paleogeographic Globes and Mollewide 1st-order Tectonic Globes. The site shows reconstructions of the earth from the Early Cambrian to the present. The pages are from the site of Dr. Ron Blakey, Professor of Geology, Northern Arizona University.
Virtual Globe. The site centers a globe on any spot and shows sunlight and darkness areas.
World's Largest Globe. The DeLorme Company designed and built a 41 foot revolving and rotating globe, named 'Eartha' at their Yarmouth, Maine headquarters.
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Other Cartographic Items
Raised Relief Maps from Omni Resources. The company sells a very wide range of raised relief maps, both U.S. and international.
Galaxy 3D Raised Relief Maps. The company sells a wide range of U.S. and international raised relief maps.
Raised Relief Maps. The company sells U.S. state and other raised relief maps.
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Analemma, Astrolabes, and Sundials
Analemma. A description of the analemma, the figure-8 seen on globes.
Starry Messenger. This site on the early history of astronomy is part of the Electronic History of Astronomy developed in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. There are pages on Armillary Sphere, Islamic Astrolabe, Western Astrolabes, The Celestial Globe, and The Quadrant and Sextant, among other topics.
The Astrolabe. This page provides a very general overview of astrolabe principles, and links are provided to other pages with more details.
Sundials On The Internet. This British site has information about all aspects of sundials. Look at the 'buy' page for some very interesting sundials.
NASS on the Net. The home page of the North American Sundial Society.
Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The home page of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, U.K.
Analemmatic sundials. A site on how to build one and why they work.
Sunclocks. Site that describes and sells Human Sundials.
Heliochronometer. This site from Gunning Sundials, describes heliochronometers.
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