Abstract
IT is unnecessary here to urge that familiarity with the features of a good terrestrial globe is an excellent faculty for the student of geography to possess. Good globes of a serviceable size should be regarded as essential to the satisfactory teaching of the subject. Messrs. Philip's new globe shows commercial routes, ocean currents and the new political boundaries; and it is a very clearlyprinted representation of the world. The distances in nautical miles are shown upon the principal steamship routes. Of course it is impossible to represent details upon a globe nine inches in diameter, as the scale is so small that the British Isles can be covered with a threepenny piece. But the correct general view obtained by the inspection of even a small globe has many advantages in the early stages of geographical instruction. For real work, however, it is essential that a complete meridian divided into degrees, and a wooden horizon, be provided. The importance of this is apparently not sufficiently appreciated by globe makers, for all the comparatively cheap globes, such as that under notice, are mounted with a semi-meridian of brass, which is sometimes not even divided into degrees, and they have no horizon. It ought not to be difficult to devise a light and inexpensive globe having both meridian and horizon, and doubtless such a globe could be produced if geographical publishers cared to give attention to it. The great value of a globe of this kind in connection with problems of geodesy, navigation and physical geography can only be appreciated by those who have learnt or taught the use ofthe globes.
Philip's Educational Terrestrial Globe..
Diameter 9 inches. (London: George Philip and Son, 1901.) Price 15s.
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Philip's Educational Terrestrial Globe . Nature 64, 375 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064375c0
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