Aristotle supposed the terrestrial globe to be smaller than it really is.
The ball represented the terrestrial globe and the stick in his other hand a scepter.
And on what point of the terrestrial globe shall I first set foot?
This is another proof of the spherical nature of the terrestrial globe.
Its mass or weight is only 1⁄81 that of the terrestrial globe.
So, for a moment in our history, I and the terrestrial globe were alone together.
As to Mr. Whiston, he affirmed very seriously that in the time of the Deluge a comet overflowed the terrestrial globe.
That's her way, I says, there ain't a more generous person on this terrestrial globe.
Victor Hugo is not known beyond the terrestrial globe, but he is known, by name at least, throughout lunivers.
His first dated work appears to have been a terrestrial globe of the year 1599.
mid-15c., "sphere," from Middle French globe (14c.) and directly from Latin globus "round mass, sphere, ball," also, of men, "a throng, crowd, body, mass," related to gleba "clod, soil, land" (see glebe). Sense of "planet earth," or a three-dimensional map of it first attested 1550s.
