Genre:

Diary, Drollery

Subjects:

Display, Geology, Physical Geography, Astronomy

People mentioned:

Galileo Galilei , Thomas R Malthus

    Description of a second visit to Wyld's Great Globe, with observations of the features of the 'earth' as if it were a real place. These include the fact that the earth does not move, the cessation of daytime on Sunday, the great variation in population on the globe, and the high temperatures of its Arctic regions as a result of the globe being 150 feet closer to the Sun than the Earth.

See also:

PU1/21/1/3