Click and drag to rotate. Fullscreen Animation courtesy of the Virtual Globes Museum. Globe kept in the Slovakian National Archives, Bratislava. The Vault is Slate's history blog. Like us on Facebook, ...

“Globes have a very low survival rate,” explained Ian Fowler, director of the Osher Map Library (OML) at the University of Southern Maine. Made to be touched and spun, globes wear down over the years, ...

Old, sepia-toned globes seem to be a hallmark of higher learning. That they end up in so many ancient libraries surrounded by great volumes of literature and history attest to their place in the world ...

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