Today is Earth Rotation Day. It is said that the Earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours. If you were looking at Earth from the North Star, Earth would be spinning counter clockwise. When you visualize the above, you are picturing Earth as a globe, so I am showcasing several books I have on globes. The first two are scientific and teaching books. I begin with an old book “A new Treatise on the Use of the Globe; or a philosophical View of the Earth and Heavens. Deigned for the Instruction of Youth”, published in 1862. It is quite a book for teaching. There is a list of over 400 questions the students are required to answer after understanding the material. Those questions were tough-no sleeping in that class. There are also nine fold-out illustrations at the end of the book that are marvelous.
The second is “A Teacher’s Manual Accompanying Cartocraft Globes”, by L.P. Denoyer, 4th edition published 1938. This book is very informative using the globe in a classroom, using plenty of drawings to illustrate. When reading it, I found that there was some pretty intense mathematics knowledge being presented in school at that time. Each chapter has a list of questions for the teacher to use with the class.
The third book is “The Pop-up Atlas of the World: A Globe in a Book” By Theodore Rowland-Entwistle, 1988. There are three pop-up globes in the book, each with several pages describing what is seen in that section, with the geography and the people. It is broken down to the Americas, Europe and Africa, and Asia and Oceania. I have both the American and the British edition of the book. Both have the same interiors, but have different covers. They are a nice part of my pop-up book collection.
“Calling out around the world, are you ready for a brand new beat? Summer’s here, and the time is right, for reading by the street…”
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