what gave him the project of being a globemaker at the time? as i learned, others -- and you can see here -- go back. as i learned, others in the hinterlands had tried to make globes. new hampshire shoe quln maker and surveyor and farmer, association, sam lane made this ideocrattic formation of a terrestrial globe in the 1970s. the idea is a misnomer the more you start to look at things. the layers peel back further. however, lane's was not a commercial globe. he made this for his own purposes. he turned a seven inch oak sphere on his lathe. he cut the degrees and the continental boundaries on the surface and then pinned it in a pine table in the form of a milking stool so it could revolve. so again it's the local materials that he utilized for this, and really, the larger goal here of clocks and globes offering consumers visual control over time and space. satisfied the quest for knowledge while fulfilling a refined person's desire to exhibit symbols of gentility. so what i mean here is that this is obviously a source of information and knowle

if you know anything about globemaking, commercial globes are not solid spheres of wood, but paper mache. the first problem he faced was his limited knowledge of geography and cartography. he made $100 that winter which allowed him to purchase the 18 volumes of the encyclopedia. it had a vast amount of knowledge of globe making. there are extensive entries in the encyclopedia. he is really able to obtain this at a general store relatively close to where he is living. my argument here is encyclopedias promise all of the recognized knowledge all in one place. in one area. and in making that information available through print, even in northern new england. wilson then, with his wood working skills, constructed this desk and bookcase to house his prized possession. the next hurdle was engraving on copper. it was the first geography text published in the united states in 1784. so, he's really able to get through the proliferation of print in the 18th century to obtain all of this information without this point in time until he met morris, any contact with a cartographer. he used the original