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By Mary Bellis, About.com Guide to Inventors since 1997

As The World Turns

Saturday January 10, 2009
mapBefore 1450, nearly everyone thought that the earth was flat and that wheels drove the sun, stars and the moon. People also thought that the earth was the center of all stars which were stuck in some giant awning that covered the earth.

Learn about the invention of the first globes. Miniature representations of the earth in the form of globes and terrain models called armillary spheres have a long history. Illustration Mary Bellis

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