terrestrial globe in a sentence
Examples
- On the terrestrial globe, tracks of the voyages of Francis Drake and Thomas Cavendish around the world are marked by red and blue lines respectively.
- Wright helped the mathematician and globe maker Emery Molyneux to plot coastlines on his terrestrial globe, and translated some of the explanatory legends into Latin.
- A British "'Twelfth Army "'was initially invented by seal balancing on its nose a terrestrial globe showing the Eastern Hemisphere, black on a white background.
- During the renovation of the 1980s, the old-fashioned celestial and terrestrial globes dating to the George II period were moved from the gallery back to the library.
- Molyneux's terrestrial globe from " Tractaet ofte Handelinge van het gebruyck der Hemelscher ende Aertscher Globe ", the 1623 Dutch version of Hues "'Tractatus de globis " ]]
- Having, it is believed, purchased the plates of Molyneux's globes, Jodocus Hondius was granted a ten-year privilege on 1 April 1597 to make and publish a terrestrial globe.
- A " remarkably modern-looking " terrestrial globe of the Earth, one of the earliest of its kind, was constructed by Taqi ad-Din at the Istanbul observatory of Taqi ad-Din.
- The title page of Richard Hakluyt's 1589 work " The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation ", which announced the coming publication of Molyneux's terrestrial globe
- At his death Yrsselius bequeathed a celestial and a terrestrial globe, a cosmographic sphere, and an edition of the works of St Gregory the Great to the abbey library.
- The supporters on either side were a silver dolphin bearing a terrestrial globe and supporting an anchor, representing worldwide trade; and Ceres, goddess of harvests, for the county's agriculture.