Globe

or artificial globe, in geography and astronomy, is more particularly used to denote a globe of metal, plaster, paper, pasteboard, ete., on the surface of which is drawn a map or representation of either the heavens or the earth, with the several circles which are conceived on them, the former being called the terrestrial globe, and the latter the celestial globe. ‘The celestial globe is intended as a representation of the heavens, on which the stars are marked according to their several situations. The terrestrial globe is an artificial representation of the earth, exhibiting its great divisions. The axis of the earth is an imaginary line pa ing through its center, and the wire on which the artificial globe turns represents this line. The poles of the earth are the extremities of this axis; that on the N. is called the aretic, that on the S. the antarctic pole. The brazen meridian is the circle in which the artificial globe turns, divided into 360 degrees.