The Virtual Globes Museum is a website which allows yous to persuasion historical vintage globes equally interactive virtual WebGL 3d globes. The collection includes public too celestial globes dating dorsum to 1507.
The kickoff globe inwards the collection is the 1507 Waldseemüller globe. This was the kickoff globe known to include the give-and-take 'America'. The label 'America' is placed on what nosotros instantly telephone telephone South America. The collection too includes a divulge of public too celestial globes past times the Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu too past times the Venetian Vincenzo Coronelli.
The University of Lausanne inwards Switzerland has released 2 interactive 3d globes which are digitized versions of the University's globes made past times Gerard Mercator inwards the 16th century. The 2 late discovered globes be equally a homogeneous pair, i beingness a terrestrial globe too the other a celestial globe.
The University has used Esri's Scene Viewer to exercise their 2 interactive 3d globes from Mercator's originals. This allows yous to inspect Mercator's public Globe too Mercator's Celestial Globe inwards item from your ain browser. The public globe is made from plates engraved past times Mercator inwards Louvain inwards 1541.
Mercator's public globe improves significantly on the Ptolemaic persuasion of the public which dominated during the 16th century. For example, his representation of the Mediterranean too Africa are much to a greater extent than accurate than many other contemporary maps based on Ptolemy.
The State Library of New South Wales has too created a brace of interactive 3d globes from vintage historical maps too globe gores. Their Meridian application allows yous to persuasion virtual globes of Miranda's World Map (1706) too Coronelli's Terrestial Globe.
Meridian was created using the Three.js library. You tin forcefulness out read to a greater extent than nearly how Meridian created their virtual globes from Miranda's 2 dimensional vintage map too from Coronelli's globe gores on the DX Lab blog.
