Even in the age of Google Earth, people still buy globes. Here's why they remain so alluring

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In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there's something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in miniature — that somehow endures.

<p>LONDON — Find a globe in your local library or classroom and try this: Close your eyes, spin it and drop a finger randomly on its curved, glossy surface.

</p><p>London globemaker Peter Bellerby thinks the human yearning to &quot&#x3B;find our place in the cosmos&quot&#x3B; has helped globes survive their original purpose — navigation — and&

 

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