The World Health Organisation has declared coronavirus as a pandemic.Governments around the world are taking measures to contain the spread of this disease by imposing strict movements of the population. Globes can be used to raise one’s awareness about the spread of the disease around the country they are living in. For example, one could figure out the ‘as-the-crow-flies’ distance between the most affected countries and his/her location by simply read on a world globe.
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History of World Globes
24/1/20
Greek astrophysicists of the third century before Christ, are considered to the first to establish the sphericity of the Earth. It is around this period that people started to construct world globes. Crates of Mallus built the earliest known earth globe in 150 BC. Up to now, the Erdapfel of...
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Why does Russia look bigger than Africa on a map?
25/11/194 comments
The knowledge of the majority of people about the relative sizes of countries is probably based on maps than statistics. The Mercator projection, the most popular world map, distorts the size of the shape of landmasses near the pole. This results in Russia looking bigger than Africa.