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in greek mythology, ganymede was a trojan youth abducted by zeus to serve as cup-bearer on olympus.

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Ganymede with Zeus as an Eagle (by Oxfordshire Chruches)

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) “Ganymede with Jupiter’s Eagle” (1817) Marble sculpture Located in the Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

An Itsy-Bitsy Early 18th-Century Pocket Globe

Among the many interesting historical globes photographed for Sylvia Sumira’s Globes: 400 Years of Exploration, Navigation, and Power are a few examples of pocket globes. Here is one made around 1715, by Johann Baptist Homann, a German mapmaker working in Nuremberg. It measures 2 ¾ inches in diameter.

This particular pocket globe came in four pieces that nest inside each other like matryoshka dolls. The outside case, made of leather and featuring an S-shaped hook that secured the two pieces together, is lined with concave representations of a celestial map, showing constellations as seen from the earth. (Celestial globes were among the earliest globes produced, and were once commonly sold alongside their terrestrial cousins.)

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