A terrestrial globe is a spherical model of Earth, or of some other celestial body such as a planet. A terrestrial globe serves purposes similar to terrestrial maps, but, unlike terrestrial maps, they do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down. A globe is in fact a type of spherical display, and thus enables sphere-of-revolution or looking at/around visual perception analysis methods.
A terrestrial globe shows landmasses and water bodies, etc. It can show nations and major cities and the network of latitude and longitude lines. Some have dimensional relief to show mountains, etc. Terrestrial globes have a long history. Whereby the oldest surviving terrestrial globe is the Erdapfel, made by Martin Behaim in 1492.
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