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Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Ellen Eliza Fitz In 1875, Fitz was given the patent for the globe mounting system of vertical rings. This mounted globe was then known as the ‘Fitz Globe’. The included vertical rings portrayed the change from day to night through all four seasons. Besides this, the actual globes that were used with the Fitz mounting were mid-19th century globes. The purpose of this new mounting system was to facilitate students’ understanding of the Earth’s daily rotation and annual revolution and was a design intended for educators to use in the classroom. The Fitz globe was published as a 12-inch globe by the textbook firm, Ginn and Heath, and was displayed at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. To accompany this, Fitz wrote and published a guidebook to the Fitz globe, “Handbook of the Terrestrial Globe or Guide to Fitz’s New Method of Mounting and Operating Globes”, to promote her invention. Within the guidebook, Fitz includes student exercises on the topics of geometry, geography, and astronomy, along with a description of the globe mount. Examples of exercises included in the guidebook: 1. Find the difference in longitude between New York and San Francisco. 2. At what rate per hour are the inhabitants of Botany Bay carried from west to east by the rotation of the earth on its axis? 3. Bring Washington into 9 o’clock A.M. 4. Find the difference of time between Boston and Rome. 5. Find the times of sunrise and sunset, and the lengths of the day and the night, at Paris upon May 14. After receiving her first patent of the Fitz globe, Fitz continued her intellectual journey and received a second patent. This second patent was granted in 1882, and was another mounting system to indicate the positions of stars above the horizon at any time of the year. From Wikipedia https://wikipedia.nucleos.com/viewer/wikipedia_en_all/A/Ellen_Eliza_Fitz

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Ellen Eliza Fitz Fitz, E.E., (1876). Hand-book of the terrestrial globe : or, guide to Fitz's new method of mounting and operating globes, designed for the use of families, schools, and academies. From Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/handbookofterres00fitzrich

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Ellen Eliza Fitz Related Information: British Pathé. (1955). Globe Making: How the World is Made. A 2:40 min. Youtube video showing how globes were made. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RWcWSN4HhI

Related Material: Paper mache globe made by Memi von Gaza as part of a "Perceptual Maps" exercise. "People from all walks of life were given a pen and asked to draw the map of their world onto a papier mached urn prepared by the artist. Where their memories were vague or non existent, they were asked to invent. One interpreted "his" world to mean a fantasy world. Common to all globes except this one has been the "boot", "sock", or "leg" of Italy. Perhaps even more fascinating than the results, have been the comments. Everyone is an expert after the fact, but faced with a blank globe, a pen, and a less than perfect visual memory, we all distort reality. Exactly how and why are, of course, the interesting questions." Memi von Gaza is an Edmonton artist known for her transitory and event works in the city. Her work encompasses sculpture, lantern based art installation, costume and set design, dance, artistic direction and writing. For over 30 years her artistic contributions have been seen in festivals, theatres, performances and events, public parks and on the streets. She was nominated for a Sterling Award for costume design, and is the recipient of the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in artistic direction. From the Edmonton Arts Council https://www.edmontonarts.ca/public-art/broken-families-monument

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display)
Ellen Eliza Fitz In 1875, Fitz patented a globe mounting system of vertical rings, which became known as the ‘Fitz Globe’. For more info/links: #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/34hn54c3 #EllenElizaFitz #GlobeMaking #FitzGlobe #Globes #MapDayMay25 #WCWMC

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