in Geometry, a round or spherical body, more usually called a Sphere. See SPHERE.

GLOBE is more particularly used for an artificial sphere of metal, plaster, paper, or other matter; on whose convex surface is drawn a map, or representation either of the earth or heavens, with the several circles conceived theron. See GEOGRAPHY.

Globes are of two kinds, terrestrial and celestial; each of very considerable use, the one in astronomy, and the other in geography, for performing many of the operations thereof in an easy obvious manner, so as to be conceived without any knowledge of the mathematical grounds of those arts.

The fundamental parts, common to both globes, are an axis, representing that of the world; and a spherical shell, or cover, which makes the body of the globe, on the external surface of which the representation is drawn. See GEOGRAPHY Index.

Globes, we have observed, are made of different materials, viz. silver, brass, paper, plaster, &c. Those commonly used are of platter and paper. For the construction of globes, see GEOGRAPHY Index.

For the uses, &c. of the globes, see GEOGRAPHY and ASTRONOMY.

GLOBE Animal. See ANIMALCULE.

GLOBE Fish. See OSTRACION, Ichthyology Index.