The Earth's Globe is instantly recognisable boith in educational and promotional
terms. These images were used in a lecture that explored the disciplines
of drawing, the point of view, the personification of the Palnet.
TOP
ROW LEFT
01 McGregor
Knitwear.....02 American engineering advertisement(If I had a big enough
lever, I could move the wolrd..." Smart Kid!..... 03 American aurlines
1949....04 from the Royal Encyclopedia , London 1789-91
The Terrestrial and Celestial Globes from Bankes' New System of Geography
date unknown c1750
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01 Bankes
New System of Geography.... 02 Athanasius Kircher, Mundus
subterraneus ,published in Amsterdam in 1678, and one in a series
of completely dotty books on the Natural Sciences by Kircher. In 1637/8
he witnessed the eruption of Aetna and Stromboli. Thereafter he speculated
on the interior of the earth, with strange inhabitants and hidden passages....
03 Golden Shred Marmalades UK 1953.... 04 Oronite advertisement US 1954
..... 05 White's Trucks US advertisement 1948
BOTTOM
ROW (black and white)
01 Johann Schoner, Opera Mathematica , Nuremburg, 1551,
published by Montanus and Neuber .......02 Pedro de Medina, The
Arte of Navigation... London 1595. woodcut and text ; "The
second chapter, how the wind moveth not right down from above down ward,
but his moving is in circle of water and earth."...... 03 "Mrs.
Earth", illustration by Heath Robinson to Walter De La Mare's poem
of the name in Peacock Pie , Constable London undated
[1917] ......04 The Poor Old Earth from Saturday Evening Post
May 1953 10 x 14cms, by Duffy, and a constant feature of his
cartoons. .........05 from Apianus, Cosmographia ,Antwerp,
1584 ......
06 The Earth rendered diagrammatically from Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic
Garden Johnson, London, 1791 ...........07 advertisement for NATO 1961.....
08 W.Hodgson, The Divine Cosmographer, or a Brief Survey of the
Whole World, Cambridge, 1640.
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