This does have its drawbacks, as the Earth is round, but pages are flat, so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years.

The Floating Earth is a 10m (33ft) wide model of the globe and is now on display at Queen’s Valley. It's made up of NASA images of the earth taken from space and has been created by artist Luke ...

Tied to Earth Day, National Geographic ... a flat surface to launch the experience. A globe rises out of the cover, with the headline “What the world will feel like in 2070.” ...

In the age of Google Earth ... s something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in miniature — that ...

This does have its drawbacks, as the Earth is round, but pages are flat, so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years.